Peculiar Will.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1923, Page 3

Peculiar Will.

MELBOURNE MAN’S BEQUESTS. SYDNEY, .Jan. 21 There were most unusual features in thi> will uf a man who died in Melbourne hist year. The will, which has just been lodged for probate, is not out of the ordinary so far as it concerns testator’s personal property. It.interest arises out of the peculiar power that had rested with him under the will of his father. i Testator had a general power ot j appointment' in the distribution of. £2OOO, and the investments thereot under the will of his father, dames Messenger, late of Bonhams, parish of Nentham, County of Southampton, dated December 12th, 1879. After making provision for the payment of six small bequests, amounting to £llO ss, testator directed his trustee, Mr Basil J. Parkinson, to pay the income of the residue of the tmst es- 1 tnte half-yearly to the bell-ringers ot , the Upper Froyle parish church, j County of Hampshire, for the time he- j in**, to be applied by them m the fo . lowing manner: “They shall keep in , proper condition and repair, the graves of my father and mother, and shall on i 22nd day of January in each year, ring , a muffled peal of hells in the parish j church, after which ringing they may. pay one-eighth of the current haltvearlv income for the purpose of providing for themselves a supper, or. otherwise for distribution amongst; themselves, and shall apply the balance towards the maintenance in alter-! mite half-years of the oldest poor man , and woman then residing at 1' roylo. ; the choice of such persons being witm i , the absolute discretion of the said hell ringers for the time being.