AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4033, 25 June 1884, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

, Auckland, This day. Sometime ago Capt. Johnstone, of Raglan, a relative of the late Colonel Speedy, committed suicide. Probate is now being. asked for his will, of which the following is a copy:—"l, John.Campbell Johnston, do hereby make this last will and testament, revoking all others. I bequeath my soul to tho Great Creator who sits on the Throne with the care of millions of worlds, which I believe He goveins by fixed laws. Through His Infinite mercy I , hope for progressive happiness after this life, which is possible punishment for sins dono in some old world. I bequeath my body to Fire. I believe burning dead to be classical, cleanly, and with respect to the living for sanitary and othei* reasons the mode of disposing of the dead. I request that my family do not go into mourniug for me. My wife, Emilia is. provided for by marriage settlement to an extent I am not in a position to increase. I bequeath all my property, real aud personal, of which I . may die possessed, in ' equal shares to my children (names). I desire my sons to strive against tho abominable injustice of the swindlers calling themselves ,the Government of New Zealand, who, for the. purpose.of enriching themselves,! have borrowed ■ many millions

from the people of England, who I have repeatedly warned through the press of England that they will lose thenmoney. The rising generation of New Zealand is not answerable for the debts thus contracted by English adventurers; they neither borrowed nor benefited by this money, but, on the contrary, it ia the cause of our now suffering increased taxation on the necessaries of life. I desire my sons to expect the day when it will be their duty to resist the re-payment of this money, of which the other Island has had a lion's share of the plunder."