VALUABLE LAND.
One of the surest and Safest, ways of becoming rich beyond ; the .or earns;'.'of |V avarice would .(says the .''Daily ■■■ Mailer be'to possess' a "few-acre's o'f-iand in the heart of the City of London, bfV in. -. fact, a single acre v,'Ould make one weal-, thier than the most lucky miner that ever starved ;in Johannesburg. - This -;- was proved conclusively,'the other day,'.'."' when the freehold of No. 54, Gheapside, was sold for £28,500, which is equal to v . £6O per-square foot, or .£2,613,600 -an '" acre. The highest price ever asked for land in London was. at the rate of thir- ? ? teen million pounds sterling per * acre. The golden spot was in Bermondsey, where a few days ago a small piece '&?>% property : Was offered to the South-Eiast-ern Railway Company" for £T;250,000. No wonder the railway, company declined to buy. "
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 25
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139VALUABLE LAND. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 25
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