A FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3877, 3 July 1928, Page 77

A FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER.

OLD SUPERSTITION VINDICATED. HANDSOME LEGACY FOLLOWS FINDING. AUCKLAND, June 25. ! The luck attaching to the finding of a four-leafed clover, otherwise known as a shamrock, was:evidenced a few days ago, when Mill Ivy B Brown, residing at Mount Eden, picked one of these rarities and immediately afterwards received word that she was to receive the sum of £lO,OOO under the will of an uncle in England, • over which there had been litigation. Miss Brown chatted interestingly this morning, and gave many details of her family, and the two rich uncles in England who were engaged in bank business, and who both left large sums of money to be distributed amongst their nieces and nephews. "Of the two estates,” said Miss Brown, "mv share will be in the vicinity of £25,000, ‘but as I was the only Miss Brown, and both uncles left neither wife nor child I should have been an heiress.” Miss Brown is a New Zealander bv birth. She was born at Dunsandel, near Christchurch, both her father and mother coming from England. Her mother was a sister of the Rev. T. Anson Cato. “ I have always been looking f Or tourleafed shamrocks,” said Miss Brown, and I began to think that after all there was not much luck attaching to them, but I certainly had to reverse my decision when I found one the morning the result of court proceedings was cabled. It will not make any differcn.ce,J°, me s ° f ar as setting up a big establishment is concerned. I have been used to getting along with very moderate means, and I intend to go to England in a few months’ time and settle down to enjoy peacefully what ha s been left to me. there has always been a great deal of money in the family. My grandfather was almost a millionaire, making his money over the Crimean War. My uncles would have died very much wealthier had they not been affected by the swindles of Whittaker Wright.”