A ROMANCE OF FORTUNE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 389, 26 May 1908, Page 4

A ROMANCE OF FORTUNE.

Peter Anderson, a farm laborer of White Bluffs, Washington, has inherited a fortune amounting to ,£72,500 under most romantic circumstances. Anderson, who was too poor to buy wall-paper, had covered the walls of his cottage with . newspapers. Recently he noticed an advertisement in one of these papers asking for information of his whereabouts. He replied to the advertisement, and on establishing his identity, he was informed that he was heir to the sum named.

He received a draft of £I,OOO to enable him to come to New York to collect the balance. Anderson left Denmark in 1873 aboard the ship W. J. Gottry which was wrecked off Newfoundland. He was a powerful swimmer, and, seizing Peter Kuudsou, a drowning passenger, kept him afloat until they were able to crawl on some wreckage, which floated them both ashore. After much privation both reached New York, where they separated. Knudson made an immense fortune in the glove business in New Jersey, and bequeathed it to his rescuer.

One of the most despicable thefts is that of a newspaper from a country road; and when any person descends to this practice it is wise to be sure no witnesses are about. On Wednesday last a young man from Halcombe, whose identity is known, accompanied by two ladies, when driving past Mr A. Hunter’s gate, Penny’s Dine, Mount Stewart, picked up that day’s copy of the Feilding Star and the Chronicle, and went off with it. It might save further trouble if the young man in question returned the papers with an apology for his lapse from the paths of honesty. We know the Star is worth stealing, but we do not appreciate that kind of lefthanded compliment —nor do our subscribers. —Star

Members of the English Bar prop6se to tender a banquet to Mr Asquith, as a mark of esteem to celebrate the fact that he is the first lawyer, since the days of Spencer Perceval, to be at the head of the British Government.

It is stated that at least three respectable women have, during the past week, been subjected to molestation in the backstreets of Timant by cowardly men during the hours of darkness. The Timaru Herald says that it is impossible for a limited police force to effectively patrol the whole town at night, but it is hoped that the ruffians will be caught and made an example of.