SINGULAR BEQUEST.
The Geelong Times is responsible for the following A singular disposition of property, we are informed, occnred last week in the neighbourhood of Drysdale, A foreigner, who had been living some years there, and had acquired a considerable amount of wealth died. By his will he directed that the sum of £2OO should be expended on his funeral, that is to say, the expenses of his interment to be first paid, and the balance to be spent in a general “shout” for everybody living in the district. He also devised all his real property to such persons as were his tenants at the time of his decease. The personality, which is no small amount, he willed to be divided in equal shares amongst all widows in the township. Many of these, we are informed, were unknown to him ; but it is said ho took particular care to find out the names of all of thorn, so that none night be omitted from bis charitable bequest. The nationality of this benefactor of the widowed and orphans is not known. He is claimed, since his death, to have been a German, a.Dane, a Norwegian, or a Dutchman.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 892, 9 August 1879, Page 2
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197SINGULAR BEQUEST. Kumara Times, Issue 892, 9 August 1879, Page 2
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