“TWIXT CUP AND LIP.”
A singular -instance of the truth of the old proverb “ There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip,” comes from Glasgow. A worthy- citizen of that place, Mr. John Bell, recently died, leaving behind him a most valuable collection of paintings and works of art, of a total value of two hundred thousand pounds. It is said to have been wellknown that he intended leaving these treasures to the Glasgow Corporation, and it was anticipated that the Titians, and the Guidoes, the Claudes, the Rembrandts, and the Rubens would in due course of time be handed over to the public art gallery. Unfortunately, it was discovered that Mr. Bell’s will was written in pencil, and bore no signature. As a consequence the Town Clerk has been reluctantly compelled to advise the Corporation that they have no claim whatever to the pictures, and, therefore, the treasures will all be put up for sale by auction for the benefit of the heirs. This is not the first time the ambition of a man’s life has been frustrated by a legal “ hitch.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 932, 6 April 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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183“TWIXT CUP AND LIP.” Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 932, 6 April 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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