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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6897, 8 February 1894, Page 4

Baron Konigawater, whose death recently took place, was (saya a London contemporary) one of the most remarkable members of the Jewish community m Austria. His fof.

tune is estimated at £i,000,000, not a vast amount as compared with the hoards of some of his compatriots. But his liberality was unbounded. He gave away hundreds of thousands m large schemes of charity, while I his hall porter had always 10,000 florins m j band as small change for the relief of casual applicants. Yet with all this he is an austere man. When one of the baron's sons married some years ago a charming actress of the Burg Theatre, he sent him off to Frankfort, and only provided for the barest necessities of the young couple's life. Moreover, he possessed a very caustic tongue, which inspired even his co-religionists with terror. Though an orthodox Jew, he was a member of the Upper House, and frequently entertained cardinals and bishops at his table. He was escorted to his last resting place_ m a pauper's hearse, but an endless procession of carriages, covered with emblazonments and armorial bearings, followed him to the grave.