A TASMANIAN ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2812, 7 May 1895, Page 3

A TASMANIAN ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Rumors have recently been persistently current in the city as to an alleged romance regarding the life and prospects of a Tasmanian family. The substance of the reports in circulation, and that they are numerous and vary according to the strength of individual imagination goes without saying, is to the effect that the family are in poor circumstances but of respectable connections, aIBO that they have succeeded in establishing their claim to fabulous wealth, which is, as usual in such cases, locked up in that doubtful, not to say impenetrable, safe—Chancery. Millions of money and estates have been talked about as freely aB popular mining scrip. The only question in doubt appeared to be exactly how much was the money, how big the estates, and how many of them, The Mercury is able to state authoritatively that the bulk of this is mere speculation, and with no particular foundation to rest upon. The facts are generally that a well-known city firm of lawyers have in hand the investigation of the claim of a Tasmanian family, most of whom are living in Hobart, to a large, but not fabulous, sum of money in Chancery, some estates formerly held by an earl, and the title connected therewith. And what is Jmore* saatisfactory, there seems reason to suppose that the claim can be established. But up to date nothing has really been done beyond the collection of material evidence. The first steps in the matter are, however, to be made almost immediately, and if these work out satisfactorily a set of oircumstancea which will form one of the most interesting of romances in real life will be heard of.