LORD DERBY'S ESTATES
■ ■■■$ ■• .■ -~\ ; ; QUESTION OF .VALUE. By Telegraph- -Press AESwSa.-tioß'rCowTiiels* _'" (Red. February '&J'll'.s'{i-.ai.j '■• ' / London, February 9. Lord Derby, hx reply to Baron do Forest,' complains that" whereas the memo* randiim, on which tlio offer of thc'Bootle estates was based, stated in tlio clearest) words that the estimated value referred to the- present time, Baron d« Forest advaiieos impossible conditions, demanding besides the land every sum received by Lord Derby av hk predecessors from tlife sales, finijs, and , mortgages for the past two Irtaidretl years. Baron de Fdrest, by way,of rejoinder, says that Lo.id Der?jy ought to have etated that tJio estate since thft outset, had mado three tit four million pounds profit out of uictfemont o:n. the value. . Baron do Forest, ■ having mentioned in tlio Liberal land report that Lord Derby held land valued at Wtweeii ttee- and four million pounds, Lord J)&fby offered Baron da Forest tho whole- <sf his (Lor<t Derby's) estates for one. and a half miU lion , pounds. Ba.ron de Forest accepted the offer, and pointed 'out ih&t .the value of the land in 1724 had been paly gim>
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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183LORD DERBY'S ESTATES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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