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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9465, 31 March 1905, Page 3

Messrs James Samson'and Co., Dunedin, on VV'e'dnesuay offered- for- sale • at ! their rooms the-Empire Hotel, fraseby, contain-ing-20 rooms, together ; with .the freehold sections 80, 81, 82; 115,va0d;117, block I. Bidding for the property started -at £SOO, and was'by £25 bids • cahriedsto l £67s'safe which 'figure it- fell ■to -Mr- -H: ' Goughlan. 'The new proprietor takes possession 1 in i» fortnight. : ilt is -just-si* years- since''Mir bought the hotel. -treason -for selling is that bis health demands' a change ''of climate;Mr Geddes-has not-yet decided oil his future- course, but will ■ proVably settle some whereto the n'orth of Uuiiedin, St. Petersburg carr'eapohdeiit *?ays thatr owiiigito tlfe United;' States and Fra&ce's good offices Russia iapiepared tt> ■negotiate peace, and has outlined her conditions.