The Richest Man in the World.
The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the Duke of Westminster, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will be the richest man in the world. When what is now the fashionable section of London known as Belgravia was but a sheep farm, the fh'st marquis was leasing lots at ninety-nine years. By the time the heir to the Westminster estates attains his majority all these leases will lapse, thereby adding an almost incomputable amount of ground-rent to the estate. The present income of the property is about £1,000 a day ; a few years hence it will be ten or twenty times this amount.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 4
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109The Richest Man in the World. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 4
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