SUPPOSED FORTUNE FOR LOCAL MAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8763, 26 April 1890, Page 3

SUPPOSED FORTUNE FOR LOCAL MAN.

ENQUIRIES BEING MADE

About a week ago Mr William Appleyard who is employed at Messrs Gold water Bros*, store, received a communication from enquiry agents in Christchurch (South Island), asking him about his antecedents etc., as it was probable that he was the inheritor of considerable wealth in England, which had been tied up in chancery for about 30 years. The letter stated that about that time an estate sworn then under £20,000 was left to one John Appleyard, of Lincolnshire, who could not be found, and was in all probability dead. Since then no connection of tliis John Appleyard could be found, and the estate was realised and the money put in chancery. From all they could learn, those who arc instituting enquiries into the matter, think that Mr William Appleyard who is the only now living son of John Appleyard of Ilorton, Lincolnshire, who died more than 30 years ago, is most probably *!.- true heir to this wealth, and, acco" Jlngiy. ilicy have requested Mr W. Apj>lc>anl io mmd them all particulars .-- of In* family, movements, etc. This has been d-w by Mr Applayard, who is now 64 yeart- old. an-! who left homo at tho age of 10, to journvy to India as a soldkr of the line. The eiicumstanccs surrounding - this case point to Mr Applcyanl being the '"heritor of this \\i\ilth. With their letter the fhrisiclMreh ouquiry agents sont an extract rom a Lincolnshire newspapermany \<"ir~ ?'**» * a w ' u ' ca im ' 3et forth the "facts WnwVnlnl'-'J^ 11 . Appleyard the [ leg-jfce of the wea,!*.!' 10 could not be \ fot.nd 30 years ago. £? W - Appleyard, " who lias put the mutter in the 1 !::: iuls l^ t ilr H. K. Richmond, does not put himscu. -. over the matter as he states that ho" can scarcely realise Mich a thing, and iv a simple way he adds that he fears to think over it too much. Mr Appleyard further adds that he had an uncle in America, who he remembered as having money in his boyhood, and who, perhaps, was the person who bequeathed the money to John Appleyard, bio brother, supposing that the latter is the real legatee mentioned 30 years ago.