LORD DERBY'S ESTATE
IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS
By i'elegraph— Press Association—Copyright (Received February 9, 11.5 p.ra.)
LONDON, February 9. Lord Derby, in reply to Baron de Forest complains that whereas the memorandum on which the offer of the Bootle estate was based stated in the clearest words that the-estimated value referred to the present time, Baron de ForSSt" advances the impossible condu lions of demanding, besides the land, every sum received by Lord Derby or his predecessors from sales, fines, and mortgages for the past two hundred years. Baron de rgply,. says that Lord Derby ought to have stated that the estate, since the outset, had made three or four millions profit out of the increment in value.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 6
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