LUCKY NEW ZEALANDER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 12

LUCKY NEW ZEALANDER

- HEIR TO A FORTUNE.' According to the “Waipa Post” there -is -a-person -in the Raglan districb approadhilijs> : half a million of money, whioh -.'is' nbfr lying in Chancery in England.An article in the “Weekly Nowb,” London, under date March 28th, 1888, gives *4 remarkable story dealing with Robert Robsotn, the reputed heir to a quarter of : a million pounds. After the lapse pf years a Raglan boatbuilder, Jghn Charletan, is asserting a claim on the estate. John Charleton, who is now in th© sixties, is the son of the late George) and Aim Oharleton. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Robson, was the sister of Robert Roheon. She' married- .George Charleton. After their m-drriage the parents of John . Charieton left England about the end of 1833 in the stop Clyde, under Captain Ireland, and eventually settled at Kawhia. Georg© Charleton was a well-known figure in the eairly days of th© Kawhia settlement, where he arrived- about 1836, and purchased the land on which Kawhia township stands to-day. He was engaged as captain in the trade for several years between Onehungn and Kawhia, and lost his: life when the sphobner 'Thistle went down off the Kawhia bar in 1863. Negotiations have been, going on in England for the past eighteen months, and the developments are naturally being followed with keen interest by those con. corned.