A MISER’S HOARD

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8997, 8 November 1907, Page 1

A MISER’S HOARD

All over the country (sa.ys an English paper) people are trying to establish relationship with George Kaynier, the old Australian goldminer, who died some weeks ago at Ipswich. After Kaymer died in his miserable little cottage his pillow was found to be stuffed with gold and bank-notes, a deposit note from Barclay’s for over "a thousand pounds, and a similar note for a largo amount on tnc Capital and Counties Bank. His house was a mere hovel, with no furniture beyond a rough bedstead, and Ho lived the life of a hermit. Mauy people are convinced that more wealth is hidden either in the house or the garden. Alleged “relatives” are turning up; people are bargaining for the house, and a speculator has come forward and asked to bo allowed to purchase the bedstead, the mattress, and table in the hut. If he gets the table he will saw it to pieces in the hope of finding money concealed in it. Some of the boards of the floor have been taken up, and enterprising treasureseekers have actually been up the chimney. They found plenty of soot—hut no gold. Kaymer loft no will, and inquiries after his relatives have revealed the fact that he was one of several brothers whose colonial experience was remarkable. One brother —Benjamin—died some 20 years ago in Australia, leaving a fortune of £150,000, to ills heirs. Ho was a bachelor, and made his pile on the goldfields. Another brother, Jeremiah (also a bachelor), left a considerable quantity of land and property when he died. Towards the* end George Kaymer used to hobble down to the end of his garden in the evenings and grope about among the rubbish. Quo night someone saw him there chuckling as ho counted over his gold. He would beg food and tobacco —and anything ho could lay his hands on. One day, a short time before his death, he nearly poisoned himsslf. He got hold of a sample tin of metal polish, and, mistaking it for potted meat, spread it upon a huge slice of bread, and was just beginning to eat it when a neighbour came in and stopped him.