The purchase price was announced as 10,000,000 kroner, which is roughly 5,000,000, Inquiry elicits that this purchase has nothing what. ever in it to interest the Shanghai market. The London office of Messrs. J. A. Wattle & Ca. are agents for several rubber companies registered in England, and so far as is known this transaction is on behalf of one of these companies. The name of the estate in question is believed to be Telok Pandji, and the _scheme probably entails amalgamation with igbouring plantation.
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