DEATH OF A KENTISH MISER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

DEATH OF A KENTISH MISER.

An elderly labourer has jntt died at Ashford, Kent, who developed throughout his , life * singular propensity < for Raving. The name of, the deceased was William Higson, and his age was 07, although he looked muqh older, and was bent aearly double, lie was brought up ,in the Tenterdon Upton from a bey, , aud. lived there 20 years, and by the selling of sweets to the children and either inmatei, and by hoarding a small salary which the guardians paid him for two or three years for acting as aaupernumary porter, he had accumulated on his discharge!! sum of £30. He worked after that as nn agricultural labourer.sijbsisting'alinost on bread, which he sopped and seasoned sometimes with a little sugar, and at other times with salt. Latterly he bought occasionally a small piece of butter, but never meat, although when meat was given him he eat it eagerly. He never married, and latterly lived in one room, which he hired for a trifle a week from an aired widow. The old :nan dressed somewhat decently on Sundays, and people, thinking him very poor and infirm, gave him food and employed him on odd jobs. Ha died at an early hoar in the morning, and when hi? room door was burst open a singular sight was 'presented. There were hoards of rags, wool, dandle ends, and all sorts of miconsidered trifles, and in a- tub with a locked lid half sovereigns and silver to the araounj; of over £77. Each piece of gold was carefiilly wrapped in paper. A bank book showed that he had on deposit in the Ashford Savings Bank upwards of £123. A brother who is in poor~eMKUHttsiauo«*~'~will get all the money.

A few days ago, .in the course of some excavations at the Acropolis, Athens, near the Erecthenm, • three statues of women in an excellent state of preservation, half as large again as life, with large head^, and completely coloured, were discovered They belong to the period before Phidias, are delicately finished, and are of an archaic art, admirable preBerved. Whilst Mr Justice Chitty was trying a casa in the Chancery Division, London, England, recently, a loud, crack was heard from the roof of the court and a portion of. tho plaster fell upon the cunopy which is placed over the bench, ilr Justice Ohitty at once remarked : " Fiat iustitia, , nut oceluna," »n observation which naturally cawed . gceat laughter.