POVERTY AND RICHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 9

POVERTY AND RICHES.

ELDERLY | MAN'S HOARD. - [FROk' OTTO ' OWN ' COKJPSPQKDEOT.J , ■.'■ SYDNEY. Jaly 18. ■ V ; A. Greek philosopher once left; all His ''■■■ worldly wealth in the" hands of, a friend, with orders ;to pay * it.; to' his children' in ."* case; they should be fools. lEs point was that if they..werephilosophers..'they not s want it. -';;^ was;;perhapßtlus.view that on old mairi,' ' who died recently in - &hUcomparative poverty in ; a city ' boarding house, took, of y'^asP: relatives.--He must ' ' have ; assumed that they were all philosophers, for ion his death, in : oiiei of the public hospitals, there was found; tucked " away in the corner. of his trunk a fortune [ of £38,000, in the [form of fixed deposits in various - banks, :-; ires; > and j; other ; se- ; if: curities. -Tho man, who was 'about SO, ~.. lived poorly and ■: dressed, poorly ; r and , prac- : tically nothingiwasi^iiownlabo'it'him;^?- -. ■ '; though it was thought that alt' one time he was a postmaster at "oiae of; Sydney's ,;;, post offices. ?He ' had | no. money? y, ith him going into the hospital, ana it was on the question <! of" his Durial arising that the '• hidden wealth was revealed.v >' . « .' | -The Public Trustee'is Department is now / applying -for. a grant of administration iof the estate, and when this! is. secured it will try *to -get; into touch with the old \ - '■_-~ man's * relatives. ;. One 'can •■ imagine tht> appalling rush to claim relationship, which. ■ is bound to ensu«i. ■ v ,