A BARGAIN IS A BARGAIN.
Twenty years ugo a Liverpool steampacket company wanted to extend ita premises, and resolved to buy a piece of land belonging to a maiden l.idy of an uncertain age. The spinster sold her land at a very low pi ice. but, as a wt-uff, requested that a . l.iust'should be put in tbe agreement to the effect that during her whole life she and a companion should have a right at any time to travel in the company's vessels. The day after the agreement was signed, she Mild her furniture, let her house, and went on board the first outbound vessel belonging to the company, without troubling herself where it \v.ib going. Since then the lady ha«. always lived on one ship or another, accompanied by some lady traveller, for whom fche advertises, and whose passage-money she pats in her pocket. She oi Iculated to nave made over two thou.^.md pounds, by the sale of her few yards of land, and the company have offered her more than that sum if she will give up hrr privilege, but they cannot get rid of her at any price..
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 350, 13 March 1889, Page 8
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191A BARGAIN IS A BARGAIN. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 350, 13 March 1889, Page 8
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