A WINDFALL.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 301, 27 August 1908, Page 2

A WINDFALL.

I hear (says the London correspondent of the “ Dundee Advertiser”) that recently a well-known Scots nobleman found himself unexpectedly in possession of a box of family plate. Some time ago he sent three boxes of” plate to Coutts’ Bank, and asked for a receipt. This the bank declined to give on the ground that it would make them responsible for the safe custody of the plate. A short time ago the Scots nobleman, beingin London, went to the bank to make sure that his boxes were quite safe, and asked to see where they were kept. He was taken to the vault where jewels and plate deposited with the bank are kept. Behold, however, it was found that in the vault there were not three, but four boxes registered in his name. It turned out on investigation that his grandfather had deposited a box containing valuable plate in the bank which had been quite forgotten by his descendants. The nobleman, therefore, much to his surprise, found himself in possession of a quantity of plate of considerable value: but had Coutts’ Bank not refused to give a receipt for the three boxes sent to the bank the other box might have remained there unknown and unclaimed for a generation to come.