AN ALLEGED WINDFALL.
The following despatch waa received from St. Paul's, Minnesota, under date August Sflch. A young Australian named Charles Watson, employed during the last three months as a common laborer in this city, has to-day received news of thedeatn of his father, 7T. B. Watson, known to fame as the Australian Bonauza lung, by which he succeeds to an inheritance of three million pounds sterling. Young Watson and his family had been at logger* heads on account of his marriage with an actress, who died recently while filUnaan engagement In a San Francisco variety Theatre. Tha fortune consists of mining property, including the famous Bendigo mine at Ballarat," and several business blocks in Sydney, Melbourne, and Auck land. Watson le reported to have .sailed for Sydney from San Francisoo by the steamer on September 12th, but his name does not appear In the passenger list of the ZealandiS, which for Sydney via Auckland oh that date, and the officers or the Zealandia, in reply to questions asked whilst the vessel was ia Auckland harbor said they knew of no such person being on board. - ■'

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