SPENDING HIS FORTUNE.
London, February 23. A young man named Taster, who has just coine into a fortune of £700,000, is suing Streeter and Co,, the well-known jewellers, for £17,000 worth of jewellery bought and not delivered.
During the hearing of the action it came out that Tasker had purchased articles to the value ojh £87,000 in a few weeks. (Received, February 25, 10.50 a.m.) Tasker's purchases included the famous Aora, diamond, for which he gavo fifteen thousand, and seven others, the cost of which was thirty thousand; ho also gave thirty thousand for tho Hope diamond, Streeter & Co. deny that certain of the purchases claimed by Turner, were ever made.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4960, 25 February 1895, Page 2
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111SPENDING HIS FORTUNE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4960, 25 February 1895, Page 2
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