A CURIOUS WILL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1905, 30 July 1888, Page 3

A CURIOUS WILL

The subjoined copy of a most carious ! will appeared m an Auckland paper : — "I, John Campbell Johnßtone, do hereby make this last will and testament, revoking all others I bequeath my soul to the great Creator, who sits throned, with the care of millions of worlds, which, I believe, ho governs by fixed laws/ Through hie infinite mercy I hope for progressive happiness after this )ife f whioh ie, possibly, a punishment for ' bibs done m some old world.' I bequeath my body to the fire. I believe burning the dead to be olaaßical, cleanly, and with respect to the living, for sanitary and other reasons, the best mode of disposing of the dead, I request that my family do not go into mourning forme. My wife, Emily Johnstone, is provided for by the marriage settlement to an extent I am not m a position tQ increase, I bequeath all my property, real and personal, of wbioh J may dio possessed, m equal shares to my' children (names) ; I desire ' my sons to strive against the abominable injustice of the swindlers otlling themselves the Government of New Zealand, who, for the purpose of enriohlog themselves, have borrowed millions from the people of England, who I have repeatedly warned through the pre.aa of England that they will ioqe thelv money. The rising generation of New Zealand la not answerable for the debts thus oontra.otetl by English adventurers, They neither borrowed nor bepeflted by this money, but, ob the Qon,trary, it is the oause of ou.r nQir suffering inoreased taxation on the neoeasaries of life. 1 desire my sons to expeot tho day when it will be their duty to resist the repayment of thia money, of whioh the other Island has had the lion's, share of the plunder,"