A PECULIAR BEQUEST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2070, 10 July 1890, Page 3

A PECULIAR BEQUEST.

An old woman with a little history died a few weeks ago at Balclutho, writes a New Zealand correspondent tn the Bulletin. She was only working housekeeper to a poor old German c«r enter, hat when she died it was found that she had left £2OOO to a local storekeeper. The lucky heir knew very Utile of his b nefactress, and had not the remotest idaa why she left him the money, unless it was because be always gave her creqjt flhen, she required it far herself of her employer. The German who was all along unaware that his housekeeper was a capitalist, is much agrieved that she left him nothing considering their intimate gelations for many yearg. He feels it all the more too, when he remembers a perilous adventure they once had together. During a big flood in 1878 the cottage in which they lived was carried down, the river for several rajlee %t njght with the pajr of them inside of it, roosting as best they could between the ceiling and the iron roof, 'ihe old woman wbb yery stout, and when the cottage threatened to capsizrt as it sailed along, the German had to haul her from one Bide to lbs other to the other to keep \t level. They were rescued shortly alter daylight, and lived happily together from that time till the old lady's death. How she came by her fortune nobody knows,