RICH ESTATES IN PATAGONIA.
VALUE OF £2,000,000. SCOTSMAN'S CLAIM SUCCEEDS. (UNITED rItESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 10th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. A Vancouver messago states that the Beunos Aires Courts awarded estates valued at £2,000,000 to Mr John Monro, the octogenarian son of the founder of the estates, Mr Donald Monro, a Scotsman, who 50 years ago acquired 150,000 acres and developed one of the world's biggest ranches in Patagonia. The Courts examined at great length the findings of the Scottish Ecclesiastical Court of 1853, which condoned the pre-marital lapses of Donald Monro and Elspeth Cruickshank, who then contracted a marriago, thereby legitimatising their sons, Donald and John, who were concerned with the present property, but the younger brother, Donald, died 30 years ago, and John and his kin now dispossess the huge San Julian Company.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 9
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