THE BOOTLE ESTATES.
LORD DERBY, AND BARON DE
FCffcEST.
(Received Feb. 0, .11.5 p.m.) London, Feb. 9.
Lord Derby, in reply to Baron de Forest, 'complains that whereas the memorandum on which the offer of the Bootlo estate was based stater] in the clearest' words that the estimated value referred to the present time, Baron de Forest advances impossible conditions, demanding besides tho land, every- sum received by Lord Derby or his predecessors from sales, fines, and mortgages during the past 200 years.
Baron de Forest, in a rejoinder, s;iy,s Lord Derby ought to have stated that his estate since the outset has m,';d-> three or four millions of profit out <»;' the increment value.
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13929, 10 February 1914, Page 5
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114THE BOOTLE ESTATES. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13929, 10 February 1914, Page 5
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