MEN OF SUBSTANCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 182, 24 July 1876, Page 4

MEN OF SUBSTANCE.

Baron Rothschild is reputed to be the richest man in the worlJ, and the Duke of Westminster the man with the largest income. The Baron is believed to be worth from eighteen to twenty millions ; the Duke to have a rental of three-quarters of a million. Neither of theso can compare with gome foreign millionaires. Stewart died worth eighteen millions, but a Brazilian hidalgo is reported to own diamond and gold mines worth eighty millions ! On his daughter's marriage he gave her a diamond necklace worth over half a million, and each lady guest a diamond bracelet worth five thousand pounds. No one kuows, of course, what the income of this diamondiferous magnate approaches; but it cannot well exceed the income of the great San Francisco house of Flood and O'Brien, whose "Big Bonanza" brioga to the four fortunate proprietors half a million sterling a month; and a few years ago they had not a farthing between them. Senator Sharoo, of Nevada, has cleared a small fortune ot eight millions out of the silver mines of his State, and a Mr Jones six millions; and the great Comstock lode, regarded a few years ago as worked out, dow yields to the happy owners threequarters of a million sterling per month. These New World settlers will beat the old-fashioned millionaires — if their luck continues and they keep their money ; but there are not muny people, we suppose, who would not prefer the three-quarters of a million per annum accruing from ground-rents in Belgravia to the half million per month from the '• Big Bonanza." There are several millionaires of respectable size in India : a Calcutta banker, Muttee Soil Seal, is said to be worth five millions; the " Baboo of the Seven Tanks," six millions; and Sir Jamseljee Jejeebboy, eight millions. J