A PRUDENT BUSHMAN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 17, 12 August 1882, Page 2

A PRUDENT BUSHMAN.

Some few weeks ago, a bush man called on.'rt'vCfelNknbAvn*lto)iietor' in Pal'merstofliaud desired, him tp.dra w up a draft of his last will and testament. He explained to the s di.Lor t-iaf as his ; oq<3upa..'i'on wa> ' apparently a very dangerous one, and his family, who' lived iv another part of the Island, were, entirely dependant on ; him. the; course, apyearcd ody wise,,and , just" to'theni. .The clause- in the- will • were maiiy* aud of a most stringent char- , .acter, wh^cii .excrcisgd-.-all th», legal ! acumen of the learned solicitor to get ; tliein properly dqaiivp y,p to suit the taste \ of the lu_.j__nan,-so that some ttecks have i elapsecP sincfe the first 'steps! were takfcn i in the majtpr. Now comes the singulur part of the story! Since tbe bushman - gave orders for the preparation of his j will, n&:tes_'4Ka__:..li.ed/mjMi were killed j or drowned, each of the men being near or ifythe bushipan's immeijliate npighbojrf hood at tfie' time death overtook tlie'ili, I but he has as yet escaped. This is a remarkable I cbn.c'idenl_e, and the conviction forces itself upon us that he is not so veryi p**-|da. .t ftftef.all. Clearly the wrong man has been making hiji last j will and testament all the time, and not ! th.i-fc.ft-ny spe_iail p_©videnoo guards a man ' who is having his will drawn out, and takes a lot oi'ifcimc and 'trouble to mako j it unpleasant for his beneficiarcs.