UNSUCCESSFUL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1925, Page 8

UNSUCCESSFUL.

CL* A PUS FOB FORT I 'Nit. BOM A N.T I C BEiQU EST. by cable -press association- copyright. LONDON. Feb. It The Supreme Court rejected the claim ol James, Taylor, a resident ol Woolwich, to the estate ol I inter I ay--1,-t, VanderhuUt, reputed to be worth £<5.000.000. says a message Lorn Amsterdam. . Vaiulorhulst died at Haarlem m 1775-. and lie ordered Ins money not to- be touched lor a century, artei which it was. to. he distributed to his male descendants, many ol whom have since failed in their claim. The court has now decided the rights ol the heirs-, have been superannuated. The Daily Chronicle states that Vanderhulst' was previously a Scotsman. who migrated to Holland and amassed a fortune as a merchant ship„er Originally he left f 3.500.000, also four steel chests, which are still unopened in the Haarlem Museum, and the contents of which are unknown. Part, of the estate was Fieri neat lied to founding thirty-tuo almshouses at Haarlem. The remainder lias now increased to £6.000.000. The claimants, to. the wealth have Fieen legion and tin-v came from Scotland. England and America. One group of nine Scottish families- pooled ' their resources, to fight their claim, but were unsmoc.-essful. James TavFor is understood to have liased hi si claim on documents lately discovered in a secret drawer of an old chest, which- had been mislaid since