A BARGAIN IS A BARGAIN.
Twenty years ago a Liverpool steampaeket company wanted to extend its premises, and resolved to buy a piece of land belonging to a maiden lady of an uncertain age. The spinster sold her laud at a very low price, but, as a set-off, requested that a clause should bo put in the 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 nas signed, she sold her furniture, let her house, and went on board the first out-bound vessel belonging to the company, without troubling herself where it was going. Since then the lady has always lived on one ship or another, accompanied by some lady traveller, for whom she advertises, and whose passagemoney she puts in her pocket. She is calculated to have made over two thousand 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 her privilege, but they caunot get rid of her at any price.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2596, 2 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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191A BARGAIN IS A BARGAIN. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2596, 2 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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