A Heritage of Twenty-Five Millions
A Parts correspondent reports that M. Steenackels, who was Postmaster-General under the Tours Delegate Government, and is now a member of the Chamber, has taken up the cause of the claimants to the above mentioned sum, which they contend is due to them by the State. What they say is this :— ln 1676 a Frenchman named Thery deposited £4000,000 in the Bank of Venice died. For some time after his decease nobody came forward as his heir. Some swindlers then by means of forged papers tried to get hold of it, but failed. More than a century passed, when Bonaparte was ordered by the Directory to demand the principal and interest for the benefit of French subjects. They were paid to him, and he appropriated them to military uses. Tho State therefore becamo tho debtor of the Thery family. Authentic heirs of the deposit •of the £400,000 exist. That sumwith le^cJ intorest, now comes to twenty, five millions sterling.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 5
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164A Heritage of Twenty-Five Millions Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 5
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