MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 8, 17 November 1887, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE.

Some years ago, writes a correspondent, there might have been seen in Bold Street —the Begent Street of Liverpool—an elderly gentleman of spare figure, erect, military bearing, and dressed in the fashion of 40 years ago. Few knew him, except perhaps, a few of the older Liverpool merchants, for ho shrank from publicity, Dived a simple life, and has just died in his 80;h year. • Mr William Taylor, whose father commenced business in 1798 as a whole-aite grocer, and invested money in land whiA has since become very valuable, was most eccentric in his habits. .lie lived almost entirely alone. He a fine library and elegant literary tastes, and kept a tables, and kept a table such as epicureans would have revelled in. Ha was a a good horseman, but be never rode except on Sundays, when, accompanied by bis groom, he rode to Manchester, Warrington, or elsewhere, nod even further. He always attended Divine service in the place to which ho rode, and liked to alight from his horse just as the bells left off. Except £IOOO left for a stained-glass window in Walton Church, his immense property passes to a maiden lady, Miss Stringer.—European Mail.