A REMARKABLE WILL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1848, 4 July 1918, Page 1

A REMARKABLE WILL.

BEQUESTS FOR GERMANY. STEEPLES, BELLS, AND . SCHOOLS. QUEENSLAND INVESTOR’S MONEY. Brisbane, June 20. Remarkable bequests are disclosed in a will left by the late William Mifchner, investor, of Allora, Queensland. They include the erection and maintenance in Germany of Steeples and bells. A flour mill. An hotel. An educational institute. A farm. A soup kitchen. The testator died on June 2nd. His whole estate, valued approximately at £35,000, is to be distributed amongst various charitable and other bodies. After bequesting sums to Darling Downs hospitals and churches, testator bequeathed £3OO to Warwick Cemetery for the erection of a brick shelter shed to contain a marble monument, a vault for testator’s body, bust in plaster of testator, and a steeple bell and belfry bell to be tolled on the approach of funerals to the cemetery. Testator then instructs his trustees to stand possessed of the balance of his estate, and pay the same to the German Consul at Brisbane (when appointed), and his trustees shall, when authorised by the Attor-ney-General of Australia, remit the same to Ferdinand Tautz, relative of the deceased, parish priest of the Roman Catholic Church, at Lewin, in Germany, and the police magistrate for the time being ill Lewin. Then follow bequeaths of £SOO to the Tautz family, £I,OOO to Elizabeth Conrad, to be invested, and at her death £SOO to be divided as she appoints, and the remainder devoted to the erection of a steeple and bell at. Lewin Chapel, with busts of himself and Elizabeth Conrad, and suitable inscription on a brass plate In the clmpol. Theii there is £7,000 for an educational institute, again with steeple and hell; £4OO for purchase of a. suitable farm of 50 acres, (dose to the school; £4,000 for the erection of a (lour mill; £2,000 for the necessary machinery, and £2,500 for various buildings. There ore also charitable bequests for soup kitchens at Lewin, and investments for helping poor children daring the winter months.