A TASMANIAN ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8173, 3 May 1895, Page 4

A TASMANIAN ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Humors havo recently been persistently curronb in the city na to an tillr go 1 romance regarJing tho life and prospects of a, Tannanian family. The substance of tho roports in circulation, uul thab they aro numprous nnd vory according to tho strength of individunl imagination goes without saying, is to tho pflect thab tho family are in poor circumstances but of respectable CO Inrctions, also that they havo sue creeled in establishing their claim to fabulous wealth, which is, as usual in such cases, locked up in that) doubtful, not to say impenetrable, safe — Chancery. Millions of mouoy and osbato3 havo been talkod aboub ns freely us popular mining scrip. Tho only question in doubt appeared to bo exactly how much was tho money, how big tho estates, and how many of them ? Tho Morcury is ablo to stato authoritatively tlmt the bulk of this is in' ro speculation, and with no particu lar foundation to rcsb upon. Tho facts are gem rally that) a woll-known city (inn of lawyors havo in hand tho invcstigition of tho c'aim of a Tas manian family, mosb of whom nro livii q in tlobart, to a largo, bub nob fabulous, sum of money iv Cliaucory. some esta'es formerly held by «n earl aiul tho title connected therewith. And what) is moro satisfactory, I hero iot»8ou to supposo thab tho claim cm bo established. But up to da to nothing his really beeu dono beyond tho collection of material evidence. Tho first steps in tho matter aro, howpver, to be made almost immediately, md if these work out satisfactorily, a sot of circumstances which will form one of the mosb interesting of romancos in real life will be heard of.