THE HARTLEY MILLIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1778, 17 June 1913, Page 4

THE HARTLEY MILLIONS.

RANGITIKEI RESIDENTS' SHARES. It now transpires that a' number 00 Manawatu aud Rangibikei residents paPtl cipato in. the Hartley millions to tho c< tout of an eighth share ol £1,500,000. Tlio corroct version, of tho facta is stated by tiro Hamilton correspondent of tlio Auckland "Star" to bo as follows:—Some timo ago a gcntlonuui camo to the Dominion from tho Old Country to prosecute inquiries as to tlio whereabouts of Mr. Stephen Charles Haitloy, who tamo out to New Zealand in t!ho year 1840. Ho was not altogether disinterested in his inquiries, as he know that if he could prov<j tho demise of Hartley without issue, lu) would himself bo the hoir at law to on esfcato valued in round figures nil .£•1,000,000. Ho ascertained, however, that Mr. Hartley, who for years resided in th®! Manawatu district, and who was welt known throughout tho North Island, <lie*l in Palmerston North, where ho practised as a. Native interpreter, but li&d left eight children—four sons ami four daughters— who aro, tho rightful heirs to tho estaU above-mentioned, which comes to Hit* family through thoir father's maternal ancestry. Tho directly interested persons aro stated by tho ''Star" to be: John, Charles, and George Hartley, of Rangitikej; H. Hartley, of Himitangi; Mrs. J. Cum, ot Orari; Mrs. H. Kibhlowhite, of llotorua; Mrs. A. Parker, of Hamilton, and the children of tho lato Mrs. H. West (iioo Hartlov). of Otakeko, who will receive their mother s eharo.