CHANGE IN FORTUNE.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1923, Page 4

CHANGE IN FORTUNE.

(■ a■! ohXKi’ j:K«:o>i(\ • a i.oai). HYONKY. Au, r ;. !. '1 wo twduiiuw nt iti.’ j'.wok :.m 111 si'-;iV I list! mil.* 11. ;iv k. 1.11- ill S\:iii!’;. A t.iivtiin;’ ii "’.vtl-' wiini man til rank in inislimaiiV clntiic, nr uhn in loi'LiiiU’ in |.i• 11ii:11 \ ;',iii’-<' mu' may nil) siioukloi’s uilh. Nu : n:!;.’ v.'lin Li!<•••.•. iiiiu >u>prM-tfii J'ai-.'i St.lari, lim <■ ifi.-ii-ni am! ha.id'.vorkii.'n 1 1 aa 1 1 i;iiii' -11 ■ : : l ilia Imaul ifn! ilia, m ilm Mai’tki.'.vlia, a! !\il!aia. • Hi” n. Syilnc.v'; •. •li’i-i •iill.iir'is, ~.l‘ | a> - irnlariv aa ail i* ijn.’!. Ia l io'is. A, inimiai lar man nf miilillf ay. !•■ calm* in t >-,i!ik‘;, iiinro l!;,'ii Ail n-ai • ay an I

lurk HI) Kind 111 A-iiUtil U.iie., I.:i: .tdver-c seasons pretty well iiiiiie! him mi 1 !:t- r.nmed the voild I ill lho eve wf tli. war mi- him i n' I; in Au-.i lalbi. ; .nil! the rail lor vohiiii. ; - iouud him j amongst the lirsl. Asi ivmiuiis lime] ill ill' i.•:> I. • If fl. 111.' ho.dlh iliij'f : rod, .Hill I'll IllS fl '.lll'll lII' Ml 1r.'.l 1* I IflHllir anil the Marl),avails , .waged bin, | with ill' ill most satisfaction to boiii ! piirtii'-.. i)n\ ill and day out lie was I to lie .‘•'.'Oil in Ills dl(| onhli:igo-t fee lint. I liiiril al work in tile well-kept garden. | till one morning lie awakes to liin! | himself l.ai'd ifinart o! nallatrr wit.ii t ftsilfs and os tales in Aberdeenshire ami a rent-roll of £2OOO a year. But I no sudden revolution in tlu> wheel of j fortune ran turn .'Jack Stuart's he-; i. | and lie calmly goes on with his digging and mowing, and will continue to do so until the family solicitor, who is coming out on the Osterlcy, arrives. Such is the story of a man who has gain, :l a fortune. Another nine days’ worn! r concerns one who has left a j torture. Nobody who knew the old j man. Martin Edward Murk**, who eked j out a lonely life at a Darlinghurst hoarding-house and was generally supposed to live on a small pi nsiou mspeeled him of possessing big bank account and scrip, Wlfcn tlie oil bachelor—-he wa- over si I years of age—became very ill a few weeks ago the people in the house were at a loss i-i know what to do, and at length he was conveyed to the Royal Prince Alfred Ilosrrtol. where lie Mibscf(uentlv died. TTc had no intimate friends and no relations were known, so the Public Trustee took over what were believed to be the small possessions of the interstate. The young clerk who went to take charge of the effects, however, soon be- j came astonished at what he found and reported to his office facts which resulted in letters of administration being granted last Friday to the Public Trustee over an estate valued at just under £40,00(1 in .shares and hank do-

posits. Little is known of the old man’s history or how he acquired this large sum. The Public Trustee believes that he can trace his place of birth in Ireland, null will search for his next of kin. Parke i.s supposed to have come to Australia nearly half a century ago and was for years in the postal .service, belli!; postmaster at a small branch office in Sydney when lie retired.