CROFTON WEST.
• . SALE OF ALLOTMENTS. ,At Messrs. /J. H. Bethuno and Co.'s auction Tooms yesterday evening- therd was a • ■ largo attendance of buyers, when 78-sections at Crofton, situated west of tho railway lino, . itt'ero submitted at -auction, j THo bidding for the majority of the, sections Tva-s good, and ■'(A times,spirited, and resulted,in the sale of .'-84 allotments, as follows Section l; 30p., D. S. .Lowe; £100; -scction 6, lr. 18p., Jno'. . llowles, £80; section 7, lr. 3p;, Jrio. Knovdes £35; i section 25, 20j>., d<\ J. Colmcr, £50; scction 29, 33p>, B. H. Bourke, £80; section 31, 32p.', BL E. Eempthorne, £85; section 32, 1r.:;4p., H. E.-Kempthorjie, £9S; sectiou 34, lr., 26p., J. H. O'Donnell, £110; section 35, lr.. 29p., J. H. O'Doimell, £110; section 36, lr. 6p., V. H. Baker, £90; section 39, lr. 5p., W. H. Bowden, £95: section 40, 36])., : W. H. Bowden, £85; section 44, 37p., D. S. v ' Lowe, £100; section 51, 30p.j J. D. M'lntyro, \ £90; section 52," 31p., S. M. Harrison, £85; motion. 53, 35p: : , "Ji • Booth-Lea," £90; •••••• 55, 30p., R. M'Cormiclr, £90; section 57, , Sop., J; D.-. M'lntyro, £100; section 58,'36p., . W. H. Bowden, £80; . section 59,'32p.,-J. D. -M'lntyro, £100; section 60, lr. 2pl, A. Boyco, : £90;; soction 75, 29p., R.' B. Clark, £90 ; ' • section' 76, 30p., R. B. Clark, £90: section ! . 77,'23p.j J: D. M'lntyro, £75. . - A total aroa of;s* acres was sold for £2095, / or an ■ average of £365 per'acre. Tiio auc--7 tiorieer3 report having -several inquiries for • the unsold allotments, and hopo to dispose of the majority "of thorn during tho present week; ' ' V'. \ - .
Love. at ! first: sight- is; a pretty fictionrhapter which has little told a with real life. Ibal love should bo lnstingy and that needs fcimoi an ihtimato .acquaintance, arid thbr- : o'.vjh .understanding. l —" Amico delle Famigilri," Genoa. , ' ;\
■-Jlc-tliotb of up-i#>-dato journalism have not ! )c J?, trate il as far as Turkey. This is '"flic Stamboul" announced thoassass.nation of tho late King and Crown Prince o: Portugal:—"The King and tho Crown Prince of Portugal, after their return from \ lllayicosa, met with an accident, and were killed." And on tho following dav the journal announces:—"Prince Manuelwas to-dav proclaimed.Bang of Portugal in place of his father, wba ■ died last nighty ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 203, 21 May 1908, Page 8
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373CROFTON WEST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 203, 21 May 1908, Page 8
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