A BIG ESTATE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 726, 27 January 1910, Page 5

A BIG ESTATE.

'>: ..THE 'SALTING' BE'QUESTS-AND': ": ';'; (v'i ;> v;J)DEATH;bTJTiES. ■",■'. ".; By Telegrapii-Press Association-qoDyrlehL ,27,- ; 0.5;a.m.): •.'.•■ :> .'•.'' ■■■^• t <,. : ' : January 26.' ■'.■ ;:'.'.Th'b.v:personalty, of ■'the'. late r\ Mr. Goo. Salting.(who left to'.thb,nation^his-cbl-ilectio'n. of; art objects, valued attwb; and a: : half',millions)..'amounts to ::';His ..will: was made in 1889." It .'bequeaths \£lo,doo • to : - London: .hospitals-' and \£2ooo', to ; the -.Prince'" Alfred':. Hospital (Sydney);'':\-j\ ■'/;/::■: ::■'■ ;.:Ui- ■'.■:■;, v'■:■

'..The'V ■ sum.■;of, in left to;various relatives, and. friends/ -The residuary estate, : left', to'. a': : deceasdd^ ■% brother,; : Evolves:on;Kathenne'.Lady'Binning. V, •'•"•;. ; : .Death, duties, on: the', estate - ; amount.' to

>00s MR.->SALTiN(3;s ;vyAY.- C). vV:v ■ '.'The.'death'.'of;Mr. : .'George-Salting moves : from our midst-one., of the most extraordinary . men of our . age, says an English paper. ■ Mr. ■ Salting was the 6on : of: a Danish Australian shipowner and ■sugar .planter.;;He; was'educated at Eton and.- at 'Sydney <University.' ■': When' a young man' he-settled in London,' living simply',in , , three ..room's-..!!!. , a'. West-end club. ■■ ,-,His . annual income 'was'' counted ,by;:many tens of thousands.'of -pounds. :.He'.,was:;a, bachelor! by. .no means- a.;society'nian,' arid the despair of ■ ambitious, : mothers.'; ■ Soon/ -wherever connoisseurs' ,gathered,.'tlie;name'-pf .George Salting ;be:came 'known/ , ■Hβ, set■' out" to make d great' collection ,; of Oriental: china,: and .before■ many -yeara his collection was cer;tainly:'6ne- of '■■■ the i-finest , three in' the world/./Itvso • filled" up his, rooms that there/was little, space to 'spare; for ; the , owner, ; id'.: them; .■''; Thereupon "he loaned the , entire' collection to the South Ken-' eington Museum, where it has,delighted; nntold. armies, of visitors. Prom .Oriental ■irare.and ivories;Mr; Salting'proceeded' ;to '.■ collect .old .furniture,; paintings "■£ ofj yarious fschqols,- Renaissance, {and iptheri objects'of art' Ho was;, extraordinarily skilful in; detecting , frands;;and;he ( «)jint-' ed'no labour too great.and.'no' inquiries top-long, to ensure, the genuineness of his piirchases;; ■ Bond :Street.:dreaded, yet; de-: .lighted, in.' Mm; , for. the, dealerVof whom; he .was'ibuying might 'reckon 'that'for, days.-.his;. time "woiild be -taken".up ...by! -queries, 'examinations, and:the>like from, the .connoisseur.'. He bought nothing; but; the 'best.; The only two. collections > made in our tiine that can be mentioned in the same .breath', with .his own are ;tbe .-Wallace and; the Pierpont Morgan.':. . -: ; ',V ; -:'