LIGHTHOUSES AT AUCTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 23 March 1907, Page 3

LIGHTHOUSES AT AUCTION.

£405 PAID FOR A NOVEL RESIDENCE.

Two lighthouses on Poxtiand Biil were offered for sale a* Portland.

Aft«r desultory bidding the higher lighthouse, which stands on about half an acre of land, "wa& purchased by Mr M. W. Sparkman, of Rroughton,' Gifford, Wiltshire for £405. Tb& lower lighthouse did not find a purchaser., the reserve of £400 not being reached.

lt will be remembered that last year St.' Helen's Fort, one of the chain of sea fortifications which guard the entrance to Portsmouth harboT and Spithead anchorage, was advertised as to let. In this connection, too, it may be re called that many of the martello towers built on the south, coast diuruig the Napoleonic wars aire let at low rente to yachtsmen and 4tk?sss.