Sale of Gas Shares: Messrs. Rendell and Symons held an auction at Salter’s Seven Stars Inn on Friday last for the sale of 40 shares in the Newton Gas Company, and 10 shares in the Town Hall, late the property of T. Pinsent, Esq., deceased. Over fifty opulent merchants and traders of the town were present to procure the shares if they went at anything like a reasonable figure, and in spite, too, of the article that appeared in the same mornings Daily News of the experiment that had been tried to supply gas a. much less cost … Mr. J. Pinsent (held 40?) shares, and panic stricken at previous results, put the whole to the hammer, and in a very few minutes they had exchanged hands, five went to Mr. Cowell… and the remaining 35 to Mr. L. Bearne at …
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872
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