A FORTUNE IN SAUCE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 300, 11 June 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

A FORTUNE IN SAUCE.

How true it is that it is bettor to invent a sauca or a safety-pin as a means to wealth than to discover a goldmine. The personalty of the lata .Mr O.Wheeby Loa, of Lea and Perrin's sauoo fama, has been sworn at £1,070.000, and the realty at £29,000. The estito duty paid exceeds £BB,OOO but that, amount will bo swelled by a sum of £25,000 in legacy duties, which the c>tito has to bear. The deceaied made bequests of £IOO,OOO each to two nephews and a neica in South Australia. One uephew is dead, and his widow gets instead £5,000. Mrs Lea—the widow—gets £50,000 and the real estate. Beyond these items there are s)m(! sixty bequests to distant relatives, thirty to servants, and others to Worcester charitible institutions, the total amount thus disposed of amounting to £350,000. Tha widow is the residuary legatee, and will receive in all about half a million. The decsasad's late partner left a fortune of nearly equal amount, amas«ed like Mr Lea's, wholly from the famous sauce. The reccipo of this was given to them when they were chemists in a modest way of business in Broadstrcet, "Worcester, by the lato Lord Sandys, who had picked it up casually in his Indian travels. The firm kept it by them for years without suspecting the wealth it embodied. L'ird Sandys called at the shop when all the world was beginning to tilk of the appetising sauca aud humorously suggested that he would like to share in the proceeds The late Mr Perrin replied complacently that Lord Sandys might share in the profits if he would stand behind the counter and assist in the sale.