A MILLIONAIRE’S HEIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1071, 15 February 1883, Page 3

A MILLIONAIRE’S HEIRS.

Published report* indicate that a Pumf i.«sh : re farmer has fallen Hot to par'- of tino dos-al fortune of the late Mr A. T Stava.t, the celebrated New Yo>k draper. Mr tew.iri dirH i.itestite, leaving a fortune ef *5 000,"(0 do Ivis, which, recko- ing the debar at 4s, is equivalent to about £17,000,000. A third of tin's went to M.s f-'lewait, a lady whom th tLcssscd had marned n t Img bef re hi" de th she being, at the time tlia 1 hi* cho co f«-l up n tier, a checker m the iact* department in his huge shop. I qi.i--have been perseveringly mad) s nee Mr S ewnrt’s death to discover his nn' of ki" b t lb? (iifficnlt es have been g'ee in cona quence of the extreme reticence wh-eh tee dec-used a'ways maintained regirdi ig hi family conmc ions. It is new leported, h' w.'V-r that a claim h'.s been ma le out mi bli, If of Mr * ndrew f tewn t fam e 1 *, Vlnirho; sehea", near Loc'erbi -tua f iesshioho is stilted to lea C'.u in of the deeiase • ihe ii.ves'igi.tim b rawde n.clu ed laOo .o s soari;hiiif.B <f the it 8-r p' : ous upon gr To st'ii es .u cburchiar s tin* .• g ioul the ouery. It is f.-rMier sr.aiid ih.-t th- pro it* ihu>•o dtcid hnve b.-.n transit'd ted to N. w Yo fe, »h-re li e ' h. ve ben trimmed end prom u Ced seti-f -e orv. A-, h "sever, .he Mrtt wart, in qnes i>n is emme t 1 w ih lh- deeea-ed o ly on de n a*. ■ si. , ream i :* 81 lib'in* made lor an tier i . mo m . e - 1 ine b fore dividing the monev, whi h amounts t" o e £2,001, 00 It shoul I be ddo I th t the D i >.f i> -ire Vl,* t<v-fr, wi lony id part of the sum in a. y ease as he »ill th .re tJ mg wi h his hr th. r in New Y’o.k (to whose initialise the p'c-'-nf develop ni nt of affa rs i* du ) aocl o'her relatie ; lii cousins ..I the dri ea<"d. The nu n her of par icipants t us far discovered i' sev. nte> n in all. It a) pears that th* m honabe’s parents were married at Dalme) i .g'o i >n 1798, hi- in -Her bAn; a Mi-i Hunter ; and BJch relatives on h r side a-o m prove claims equal to those of H e relat vej named St> wart wdl receive a j ortiou pan paesa with ihe latter.