is was a claim to have defendants ved from certain land -which plaintifis claimed as theirs. Mr. E. Nelson (Messrs. Stakes and Platt) appeared for pluintifs and Mr. E, P, Allen for defendants, Me. Nelson said the petition showed what the case was, The Assessor said thathe understood was that plaintifis were going on a fan-tan and defendants on aShengko Mr, Nelson said that was so, but purchased some three years Dallas. He had never seen paper. Some objections hind been raised; one was that the aten was improperly cut, but the other half been obtained from a bank at much expense and plied before the authorities through the British Consulate, Anothee objection raised to the title deed was that a law suit was proceeding at the time by a man named Tem then an_interpreter at the Italian Consulate. Mr. Nelson said he hed found Tom sitting as Assessor wt the Mixed Court on his ow case. The Magistrate, upon knowing this, promptly ruled the case out of Court, and no further proceedings had been taken, AIL the documents had been putin and, so far as he was aware, were all in order. The tax receipts for the last seventeen years had also been filed. The only title defendant had was a Shengko paper—a floating one—which had been going about the Settlement for some time. Plaintiffs {could show by their fan-tan that it was prior to the Shengko paper. The land measured 7f. 21. 8h, Me. A, Dallas was i Mr. Nelson said n him in the 23rd year of Kuang Heir for land in Sinza, The transfer was in the name of Chang Sin-ho, He subsequently applied fur a title deed, was assigned a number, and put up his boundary stones. The Magistrate here enquired if ho obtained a title-deed. Mr. Dallas replied that he had not, The first objection at the Consulate was tht he had only half a fang! "The other half was mortgaged to a native bank and he got the bank, under a heavy guarantee, to lend it; it was than admitted to cover the whole of the land for which a title deed was applied for. The other objection was that Tem, a pariner with defendant, was arennging bogus claims on land. These claims had much publicity at the time in the Press. No action had ever been taken or
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