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: shares the present would undoubtedly be an inopportune time for the Government to attempt to realize its assets by disposing of land on a large scale. But land required for bona fide business purposes commands a fair price - we obtained the other day a sum of $67,000 for a lot of waste land only 19,200 square feet in extent and land sales have realised in 1892 $121,828 as against $51,761 in 1891, and $16,338 in 1890.
Club-paragraph (c) asserts that the general trade of the Colony is unsatisfactory and in an unhealthy condition, and that several of the oldest established mercantile houses have collapsed, and it draws special attention to the fact that the oldest exchange bank in the East, by which I presume is meant the late New Oriental Bank Corporation, which