AN ADELAIDE LEVANTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8951, 16 January 1888, Page 5

AN ADELAIDE LEVANT ER.

LIVING IN PRINCELY STYLE. It will be remembered that nearly two years ago H. E. Wood, Curator of Intestate Estates, Adelaide, levanted from South Australia with a large sum of money. How much is not exactly known ; but it is supposed to be about £10,000 or £15,000. One intestate estate, which was worth £7000 he camod off in bulk. It was believed he took an American route. For some time the Governoient announced hia capture as probable ; but nothing haa now been heard of the matter for a long time. It was peraißtently rumoured that, although the American police, stimulated by the reward offered to give clear information as to the de' faulter a whereabouts, several people of influence here were deeply interested in his not being brought back. The other day an old friend of Wood's reoeived a letter from a wandering South Australian, who came across the ex curator in a rising city of Northern Mexico, where he is oomfortably domiciled, and haa risen to the position of oorregidor, and eujoye considerable popularity. He has purchased a fine hacienda of some 10,000 acres near the National Mexican Railroad, and lives half the year on his estate, where he dispenses hospitality with true Mexican liberality. On the Sunday when hie quondam fellowcountryman met him, ho wns presiding at a boll fight in his office of, first magistrate of ♦no city. It does not appear what has become of hie paramour, with whom he fled from Adelaide, where he l«ft a wife and large family ; but in Mexioo, tho honours of hie eaUbliiibineut were performed by a charming daughter of the country, whom he has married. The senora Wood is said to have brought her husband a substantial dowry in addition to her beauty.