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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5497, 30 June 1879, Page 6

At Longton, England, an old miser named Betts has died under peculiar circumstances. He made a living as a scavenger, and has generaJly been almost naked and starved. When taken ill he refused to have a doctor, asking who would pay. He died with his, hand in his pocket, and when this was dragged out a bag of money came with it, which was found to contain £10. It was also discovered that for the last 30 years he bad been collecting coins, from a farthing to a soveroign, while denying himself the common necessaries of life. Nearly 12,008 of the Paris lottery prizes are still unclaimed, a few of them gracd prizes. Whether the tickets have been lost or whethor the holders are in such distant or inaccessible spots as not to have heard of their succes?, can only be conjectured. Supposing them to be eventully claimed,the surplus is l,800,OJ)0f., less the expenses of the exhibition of prizes. Seven million francs wore devoted to the purchase of prizes, 740,000f. of this ansa being expended in the foreign sections ;: 2,000,000f. went to defray the expenses of artisan visitors to the Exhibition, and 1,000,000f. were.allotted to discount and ■expense's.' "" " "