NEWSBOY TO MILLIONAIRE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 104, 15 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWSBOY TO MILLIONAIRE

.*N ANCESTOR TO |’,E PROUD OF. * Tint fi i" sportsman and aniiah!*■lolit.'iiian. Lord \»in:.!y. who enter.'l i.’po'i ! ’i' - '“<li >rir re ontlv. is nstiallv Kgardod a- an Irishman, but actually ?i" i' i cnni.tivm.m of Mr. Hall Cairo. f-*r the fatl'i r of th" fi'st Pct hailed irnni the I*de of Man. Towards ’ th:» c->d of *Le rentnrv fsavs ’'Modern Soc'eti .1 v.-ung tellow !-ft tbit 1 — i.-nd f»r Dublin to -e.-k hi' fortnua. ytomo s.iv that at fust he sold new*pijeis in tlw street': .inyv.iv. li > eventually lieratne :>n as.istant to a IwKik'cller and a- he ".it on h<* began to sell a few pamplib-ts on his own account He had a j'wvl head for figures and soon l.ecnnic the lw*oksell« r's <-l"rk Next the voting man from the Isle of Man secured a posit : on in a lottery office. and cvcntmlly became partner Luke White fs.’eh was his name) still went on with his hpok business, whi-h had bv this time becom.* an important conc’rr and speculate 1 in mnnv directions. Gond luck r.Liais attend"*! him. und nt ver wi- there the slightest ini-pi-tntion against him ns regards fair dealiu*'. He was beyond reproach, and ism l - out of every transaction with the fairest fame His acciimnlat'ins havin' reached a verv large jnimirt. Mr. White went tn for Innd.’d projx*rtv. anil pnrehasm! I or'! Carhamr.ton’s estate at Luttrellstr.wn. near Dii'dn; much to the disgust of the ’‘Castle" circle, tn whom it was mortifying to s -'* a fine domain, which had belonged tn a noble family for soin.* five centuries become t*>c country residence of a Dublin bookseller. From all accounts Mr. Luke 'While was an ancestor of whom anv man might be proud. After the Irish rebellion there was a rumour that the Government fiances were rather strained, so Mr. White callrtl at. Dublin Castle and made an offer. If it would be nnv accommodation trt th* Government, he Wishe 1 the Lord-Limitennnt to l>-* informed that he bad C-VU) 000 at their service, nne half of which he eonld advance nt once and th" other half in two month®, at five par cent, par anUTlni

Tliis munificent offer was made withowt anv bargain whatever, and u ithont the anrciranco of obligation, from the cordial manner in which his proposal was receive™. Such was the man fxird Anralv claims a* great-grand-father. Mr Luke White bad tour sons, the youngest of whom. Mr. Henrv M"hite. was the first lord Annalv. He sns created a Peer in JB/;3. sn thnt Vie family had »n wait for noil over half a eenturv before receiving due ’•(■"ocnition of Mr. Luke White’s patrivric offer.