FORTUNE OF TWENTY MILLIONS
WELLINGTON MAN’S CLAIM. • WELLINGTON, Sept. 24. Mr H/'Speai-s', wlio has ' been in business in ' Wellington for the last thirty years, is n oii the track of a £20,003.601) fortune-rthat once belonged to an English family'by the name of Cox. In addition to’ the capital sum involved the claim,, if successful, will entitle Mr Spears. to; large, properties, itt, .the British Isles,- includihg-two castles. ■ . This-huge sum ;of-money has been accumulating .in- -Chancery for many years,- owing to;disappearance of two brothers.''After' spending their youthin England they went out to Australia and were heveF lieaVd of since. Subsequently- this. huge Cox fortune 'was left to them. The next .heir -to the fortune was unable, to find sufficient proof .-to/ substantiate; claim. About forty years ago the fortune was contested iii .England hy. interested parties. ;. Owiiigj however, to the ".absence of. certain important' documents, since discovered in Australia and other places, the claim failed. . • Mr Spears now hopes’ to be in?, a position to claim . the' fortune. ‘He bases his claim. 6ri'the'fact that-his mother was a Miss Elizabeth Cox. Her. father,! Colonel- Cox; served in' the Indian • Mutihy and s wbuld have been iii; the direct . line if" sufficient proof could have Been- brought forward eon-. certiing:"the 1 matter.- . -Although -Mr Bpeai-s .‘believes-! thata.Rev. Thomas Cox,, as well., as his came out to Nqw 'Zealand in the early days, he‘does :not think ' that ; there jare Many descendants of,, this Cox faMjly in this country to-day, and only- a few in* England .Itself* - In. the time the matter has been placed . in the hands, of a .competent Sydney solicitor. . <)'.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1929, Page 5
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268FORTUNE OF TWENTY MILLIONS Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1929, Page 5
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