MILLIONS AT STAKE.
WELLINGTON MAN’S HOPES. ' WELLINGTON, December 18. Confident that he will participate in the division of the Everingham millions, A. Everingham, an employee of the Wellington Harbour Board, gave details of the latest developments in the claim which a large number of descendants of Matthew James Everingham hopes to lay early next year to the estate in England held in trust and valued at £23,000,000. Everingham, one of the comparatively few direct descendants, belongs to a family of 12,»the remainder of whom live in New South Wales. They are the fourth generation direct. Everingham received an account from Australia of a meeting of about 450 claimants to discuss the information brought back from England by A. J. M‘Grath, of Paddington. M'Grath, who is also a direct descendant, told the meeting that it had been definitely established that the estate held in trust was valued at £23,000,000. After about £8,000,000 had been paid in probate duties there would be about £15,000,000 available for distribution among those descendants able to prove their claims. No claims so far as is ascertainable have been made in England upon the estate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4006, 23 December 1930, Page 77
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188MILLIONS AT STAKE. Otago Witness, Issue 4006, 23 December 1930, Page 77
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