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01

Septinter following.

the 10th or 13th

On the 5100 May 1884 the Surveyor

Several called the atteiction of Governwend

was in

to the fact that the Lesser of allarine Lot

ofallarine No 18/1 (Mr Stephiaw property ) possession of a larger

awa

of land

than he had a right to under the forever leave,

and asked that he

should be called out to surrender the

old leave and to take over a new

One.

This

lease was

ay

retira

was done oud the new

prepared and issued before from Australia. I knew absolutely nothing whatever about it, yet allr Stophows in the second paragraph of his letter wishes it to

be

informed that I granted the base;

for

he scrup

for he

it was

granted in the-

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ordinary way through the fand Office of which our E. J. Ackroyd then also * Registrer of the Supreme Court is the "Land Officer." The original of the lease in oll? Stophous possession is signed, not by

as Land Offier, which it

te

would have been, had I been concerned

in the granting or preparation of it,

but by ell? Price who took over duties of Land Offieur in my abours.

Mr the

Agacie 117 Stephens is not correct

wheir he

#

way

"that he entered an

appeal against such decision which "came on for hearing before the full "Court, viz : the Chief Justice and Mr " E. J. Ackroyd the Land Officer

The

March

to fucts core as follows : In ottant 1885, the Chief Justion sitting alone

decided