An Old Maid's Will.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 April 1910, Page 4

An Old Maid's Will.

4—., . Ail elderly spinster, who died in Vienna recently, left her fortuneabout £50,000—t0 be divided between her three nephews now aged twenty-four, .tweinty-seven, _ and twenty-nine, and her three nieces, aged nineteen, twenty-one, and twenty-two, in equal parts, on the following conditions:—• The six nephews .and nieces must all live in the house formerly inhabited by their aunt, with the executor, a lawyer, whose business it will be to see that the conditions of the will are strictly; observed. None of the nephews is to marry before reaching his fortieth year nor the nieces before their thirtieth, under the penalty that the share of the one so marrying will be divided among the others. Further, the six legatees are admonished never to quarrel among themselves. *• If one should do so persistently, the executor is empowered to turn him or her out of the house and divide, tlie' share as in the case of marriage.

The executor is himself forbidden to marry or to reside elsewhere than in the .house with the legatees as long as he holds his office, to wiliich a handsome remuneration is attached.

The old maid is said to have made this peculiar will because 'her nephews and nieces continually worried her during her life by asking her to give them money to enable them,to marry—requests she always refused.