THE LATE PRIMATE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5

THE LATE PRIMATE.

■ ' ' HIS ESTATE. - (By-Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.) . London, October 7. ; The'- personalty;-; under; tho' will > of ■ Dr; Saumarer. Smith, 'tho late 'Archbisliop .of Sydney andPrimflte;.of Australia, has been isworn. at X16,013;.'0f which his estate 111 Britain represents; ,£14,183, <' :The property' is : left'. to: the late Primate's children m equal 1 shares.' ■ .; IA: his..will the late Primate-states that during, his Hfitime he devoted; as much of his in-come-as he could afford to charitable'objects, and .therefore he 'can .make;no Requests in that" direction.. ..';W\.'iV.-,-V..-.. : ' ; A MESSAGE FROM.THE GRAVE. - In .tho'course .'of'hii'sermon'in.'Sti Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, 011 the Sunday following th« fate Prim.lte'S * death, - tlid Archbishop of Mel-. bourne.(Dr. Loiyther,: Clarke) read; a document which bore the ■ inscription, "To bo opened; in caso; ,of-;my ,deathi'' ,-lil this .tho ag£d Primate ivrotD lvarmly of Australia ns tho : country of his' adoption, and prayed that true religion might increase iii thfeV.Coimnohwealth':—. ... ( "I havo been happy," he adds, "mmy.work here, and;very; thankful for. all .the affection and-Sympathy'which I,have received, ilamat peace'with all mon, and, have ', 110, inown enemy. I am trymp_ ito givo away in' charity —personal;':; ecclesiastical, andphilanthropic— a liboial proportion-of my income, and lam not/purposing to; ranko; any bequests fop religions-purposes. • Ivbehexp ihat. God ig,.ready, to receive,.mo, as.,pa^^ne^^cfl^pteil^',and : pef; i lO ii produced a as» sombljr* •'- .f- r? - '?:[[■ \'{v- : '