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Evening Star, Issue 4275, 8 November 1876, Page 4

" It is better to be born lucky than rich :" so runs the old saw. "We (•• Wakatip Mail') Kear" that Mrs- Blackwood, a poor person who has resided in this district for some time past, is the lucky owner of a handsome little fortune left her by her husband, who died about a year since at the Cape diamond fields. Inquiries have been made for Mr s Blackwood nearly all over the world, t#l at 'last instructions were forwarded to the •police here. Deceased and his wife, who once Jiving at Invercargill, have not met for ten years. Mr Finn, who is acting for Mrs Blackwood, states that the amount .demised is about L 7.000. A tire of a dangerous character, involving the total destruction of a six-roomed house, and the narrow escape of the inmates, broke 'lout on the premises of Neil M'Cowan, at the Yfaij&ki, on Friday night. From what tbe ' r Oamaru''Mail' has been able to learn, Mr M'Cowan arrived at the Waitaki on Friday evening, bringing with him a little boy. - Mr and Mrs Blackwood, his brother and sisterwere also inmates of the house at the - tone of the ffre,'and Mr Blackwood states that shortly after retiring to bed, he was disturbed by the smell of smoke, and on going to the room where M'Cowan and the . boy slept, he saw a volume of flame rushing ' out. Both M'Cowan and the boy wer6 taken out with some difficulty. The house, we are given to understand, was insured in ,'Jlie Standard, but we have not heard to what amount; its loss, however, is between L3OO