RiCHEST WOMEN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10061, 1 February 1909, Page 4

RiCHEST WOMEN.

Mrs S. CI. Asher, the daughter of the late Mr Harry Barnato, who becomes the legatee of a second million of money from the same source (her father settled the first million upon her on the occasion of her marriage to Mr Asher), has a-lready been "marked" by those who desire to secure assistance in various ways. ill's Asher's house, 60, Berkeley Square, has beea inundated with '"callers"—many of whom wished to lay the claims of institutions or individuals before her. But Mrs Asher has as yet seen no one except her nearest relatives, the task of dealing with the applicants being undertaken by Mr Asher. The acquisition, of this second fortune places Mrs Asher in the ban 1 of women wiio figure as the richest of their sex. The richest woman in the world is generally admitted to be Mrs Hetty with a fortune of between 14 and 16 millions at her command. Others who tt.llow closely are: Mrs Russell Sage, wno icceived a fortune of £17,000,000, I.ut has distributed much of it in charitable bequests. Mrs Anne Weightman Walker, who is said to possess £12,900,000. lrau von Bohlen, the daughter of Krupp, the German gtuunaker, has property va'ued at £16,000,000. Mme. Creel, a Mexican lady, is said to have an income ■'f r.oaily. £1,000,000. The Marchioness of ( >?ham is the richest British-born lady, 'or un the death of her father, the twelfth Duke of Hamilton, she came into an income of £114,000 per annum. The Duchoss ol Roxburgke was left £5,000,000 by h*r father, Mr Orden Goelet. The l>aroness von Echkardstein came this year into the second portion of her fortune left by her father, the late Sir John Blundell Maple, making her total income £66,000 jvr annum. The Countess Szechenvi, as Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, inherited £2,500,000.