A Grocer's Boy is Enriched.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1887, Page 3

A Grocer's Boy is Enriched.

A lady contributor in Melbourne sends the " Sydney Telegraph " the following : — "It is nob generally known that there dwelt in East Melbourne (lining the pa^t six years in utter seclusion one of the most gifted, talented and brilliant women of the present ag<\ Yet such is the case. This wonderful woman isMadamedella/ard, known in all the aristocratic circles ot European one of the gieatcst .sculptors of modern tinios. For some reason at present unknow. n, she left art, home, country, hiends, and relation-- to live alone in Victoria, unknown and uncared for, and until a few week* ago her very existence v, as a blank .save to the vaiioib tradespeople w ith whom she dealt. It win, then discovered that the poor lady was in a very weak state of mind and body for some weeks, unattended, except by n young giocer's assistant and alawyt'i. She died leaving all her worldly possession to the <a rood's boy, 'who iind.s hinibelf the owner ot one ot the most private art collections in the woild, ine-pective of diamonds, sapphhe.s and pearls, statues from the chit-el 01 the gifted woman excelling anything of the kind in Australia. There are complete sets ot Limoge china, beating the monogiam " N." surmounted by the Impeiial oiown in gold, together with a set of crystal, similarly eie.sted. Amongst the collection were expuMteand histoiiivilartiolcNof've! tu, purchased at a >u\c in the Tuilleiie-. The collection includes pie-ontshom tho Pope*, past and present; bionzes fiom HercuLineum and Pompeii ; oil paintings and prooi engia-wngs ot lare value, one of the touner Mijiposcd to be fiom the bru.sh ot no less a painter than Raphael. Moie will piobably be heard of this extraoidinaiy woman, who is a llu^cian (onntcss, and v/is man led 20 ycai> ago to a Mr Juhn Hazaul, an Ameiican millionaiie."