BOUTS FORTUNES AND WIVES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11610, 9 August 1918, Page 2

BOUTS FORTUNES AND WIVES.

A knotty problem which the French courts will have to decide, and which the newspapers are discussing, is the division of Bolo’s fortune. 8010, who was legally loaned from disposing of his property, left no will, but he had two wives, and whichever is proved to be legitimate wife would, under French law,^.take. half the propcrty>.hsolutely, and a life interest in the remainder. The courts have already declared Eolo’s Argentine marriage in 1891 valid, but 8010 .had entered an appeal to which his second wife, the Bordeaux heiress, is a party. It is also possible for his brother, Mgr. 8010, to intervene in the succession proceedings. The most important point to be decided is the destination of £250,000 he received from Germany. A law is said to be in preparation, to be made retrospective, which will enable tue State to seize this. The fate of tbs famous nearl necklace 8010 gave to his second wife will be decided by tne courts.