JEWELS AT AUCTION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
London, April 10. Tub jewels of Mrs. Samuel Lewis Hills have been sold at auction, am! the amount realised was £91.000. A rope of pearls fetched £16.700.
Mrs. Lewis Hills was tho wife of tho famous Sam." Lewis, the money-lender, of London, who hail had dealings with many aristocrats, and died a millionaire. Sh« died in October last, and with her death there was released £1,000.000 left by her husband to charities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13465, 18 April 1907, Page 5
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