CHRISTCHURCH ITEMS.
(By Tdosraph.-Speclal Correspondent) • Chrtstchurch, July 8. According to a local land and estate agent, times mo not nearly so bad as some imagine ' On -Tuesday, ono land agent in this city completed' a transaction involving a sum of . £1000. another did business involving a sum of-half that amount, whilst another had completed n transaction of 'a lessor amount. He himself could not complain of lack of .business. • ■ , ■'A hoi so attaohed to a Ransom cab stand- ■ ing outside 'a house in Linwood, took fright at-a passing motor-car. (The driver, haying just left tho box for a'moment, the animal bolted, and 'when stepped) it was making its >.vray on to tho beach at Surnnor, some soven miles distant. The driver followed after a considerable interval, having dono the journey on foot, in the momentary ex- — pftctation of finding his cob wrecked on tht roa'dsidc. Noithor vehicle nor'horso wore the worso for tho trijf.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 555, 9 July 1909, Page 7
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154CHRISTCHURCH ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 555, 9 July 1909, Page 7
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