LARGE FORTUNE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 8

LARGE FORTUNE.

CLAIMANTS FOR SHARE. FOUR IN NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND, July 27. An Auckland claimant to a share in a fortune of £53,000,000, said to be in Chancery in the Jennings Estate, was discovered to-day. He is Mr F. Sinclair, who came out from Scotland seventeen years ago, and married a daughter of one of the direct descendants of the late William Jennings, one of the three Birmingham ironmasters who amassed a fortune in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Miss Elizabeth Jennings, as she then was, came to New Zealand about 1911 with her sister, Miss Mary Jennings, now residing in Whangarei. She had strong religious convictions, having been brought up in the home of Rev. F. S. Swandell, later Dean to tho Bishop of Birmingham. Some time after landing in the Dominion, she entered domestic service at tho Y.M.C.A. hostel in Wellington, where she met Mr Sinclair. They were married at a registry office in Wellington, in 1917. Mr Sinclair, who is at present a lodger at the Salvation Army Workmen’s Home, comes of a good border family with a home in Carlisle. Ho emigrated to Australia about 1911 to learn farming, coming to New Zealand a year later. After his marriage he took up his residence in Hawera and later established a farm of 160 acres at East Tamaki. On the death of his wife three years ago at tho Auckland Hospital, lie"abandoned farming and engaged in bush felling, an occupation which he has followed ever since. There are likely to bo three other New Zealand claimants for a share of tho fortune. They are Mrs Emily Rowe, of Kirkwood Street, Thames; Mrs John Barker, of Grey 1 Thames; and Mrs Howard Strong, of Christchurch.