HUGE ESTATE
BEQUEST MADE TO SCOTSMAN
(United: Press Association—By Efebtric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
{Received this dav at noon.)
LONDON, August 10
A Vahcouvei-message-'states that atBuenos Aires; ■ tile Argentine Courts have awarded estates valued at twbmillion* sterling to John- Monro, the oitogenariaii * brother of the estate’sf founder Donald Monro;' a Scotsman',' tv'hp fifty years, ago, acquired ioO thousand acres of land, and det’elpped one of the world’s* biggest Patagriliia.’ ' ' . - v''"''' .' tf- The .courts examined at great length the findings'of the Scottish Ecclesiastic cal Court v of 1853, which'condoned the pre-marital lapses of Donald Monro and Elspeth ''Cruicksliank, who then contiaefei* marriage, thereby legitimatising tbeir sohs,'- named Donald and John, ‘whh is' 1 Concbrnbd ryith the present property. -The younger brother,' Donald died thirty years ago and John ‘find his inn will noW 'dispossess -the huge jSait - - Julian 1 company-. " ■ M-nvx*. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 6
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