MOCK AUCTION LAND SALES.
, to tbs sprros. ;' Sift,—There ii nothin* mure hurtful to the humble end Industrious Occupant proprietor of the suburban quarter-acre than these mock auction la-.-d sates. To-day a man wanted to borrow LIOO upon a property which he valued atL2OO, unimproved, and juntas . ,be bought It six months sso for US. Why so sudden a, rise in it| Value f said I; because, he replied, the adjoining section sold, the other day at auction for LIBO. He would sCircely believe it whan I told him that 1 happen to know for a fact the said sale to be a fiction—no sale at alt. .should this mar happep to be unwise and ids Mfe a . wbl, they are, perhaps, ruined. They had immedi- • spent their sudden wealth and that wealth created by sales resembling the Glasgow Bank returns—false.—l amt Sc.. A. B. C. Dunedin, January. 18. :
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Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3
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148MOCK AUCTION LAND SALES. Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3
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