AUSTRALIAN MILLIONAIRES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1010, 28 September 1882, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN MILLIONAIRES.

A correspondent of the Whitehall Review giveg a rather amusing sketch of an Australian mil'ionare. He says :

—•“Your list of richest men in the world is remarkable for its omission of our millionaires (one died in New Zealand only the other day said to be worth from three to four millions). The richest man in Australia is a bachelor —Mr James T/son, to whom I shall be glad to give an introduction to any ‘fine, well-built, homely English girl,’ for such a one Mr Tyson says he will marry, and be means it. Mr James Tyson, who is is worth about at least <£8,500,000, was bom near Sydney on the lith of April, 1828, He comes from a good old Cumberland family, and owes his good fortune—consisting of broad acres, bard cash, and countless flocks and herds—to his energy, his untiring industry, and Ms great selfdenial. Though called ‘ the grass-eater,’ because of his fondness for a succulent Australian herb, he is by no meanis a Nebuchadnezzar. He has never indulged in a glass of wine or spirits, or tobacco in his life, and those who know him bent say, as one great man said of another, £ he has not one redeeming vice.’ His temper is sr? even that under the most trying circumstances no profane word lias been heard to escape from his lips, yet lie has never been to church, and the frugality and simplicity of his habits should disarm the envy of those who might he disposed to covet his great riches. Mr Tyson'offered the Government of Queensland a loan of LoUO.OUO a few years back to construct a transcontinental railway, and I shall never forget tiie sjmpathy 1 felt for hi aft* r lie had placed all-the surplus cadi he could M safe investments- to hud that lie had the miserable sum of of LGU/iOU left oVir, for which the kinks, v.ilh a plethora of money, would mily give him two per cent. ‘ Advertise ii,’ was the aavic 1 . ‘No,’ said Mr lyson, ‘ in that case I should only get aii*iiit me a lot of follows who cannot get' money advanced I’rma other quarters.’ it was hard lines for him. and 1 could not assist Mm. It is only necessary to add that Tyson is a tall, well-made, mid by no m ans a bad-look-iug Austra'ian. 1 will only here mention an.uher Australian millionaire, the lion W. ,). t lar' - , a member of the Legislative Council of Victoria—now on a visit to England—who is believed to he worth A>>,'loo,ooo. Ho j s a very diffeient type of man to Mr' Tyson ilis life is remarkable lor boundless, yet well-directed charity and hospitality. . ■ Dming the past five years he has given upwards uf Till),000 towards 'charitable and patriotic movements,”