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Show A Hlg Windfall. The English plasterer who has been left a fortune estimated at 1,400,000 by a relative in Australia has been discovered discov-ered at Kettering, in Northamptonshire. His name is John James Pearce, and until un-til a few weeks ago he lived at the parish par-ish of Kingsthorpe, a hamlet of Northampton, North-ampton, lo lodged with a lady named VVeston, after the decease, a few months ago, of his wife, who committed suicide. Fear of poverty was ascribed as the cause of her act. Last Sunday, while reading, ho came across a paragraph announcing an-nouncing that a Sydney clergvman had left 1,400.000 to a man in" England named Pearce. "Why," exclaimed the plasterer to his landlady, "that's me, he'H my uncle! That inouey belongs to me!' Ilia identity has already been acknowledged ac-knowledged by the london agents if the Australian solicitors to the deceased miilionairo. Pearce leaves England for Australia in the course of a day or two He worked for several muster plasterer? iu Northampton, and Is described by hi-fellow hi-fellow workmen as a quiet, reserved fel low, a teetotaler, and gave people tin idea that he had seen better days, London Lon-don Times. |