WINDFALLS.
Lovers of the curious may like to note the following remarkable “ windfall” cases of recent date:—£soo,ooo to Sir Henry Havelock, from bis cousin? in consideration of Sir Henry (among other things) adding the name of Allan to his surname; £60,000 to bo equally divided between the Life Boat Institution and the Royal Free Hospital, from an old miser, who for many years lived in a state of ntter misery at Hunslow; £65,000 to the British Museum ; this “ windfall” had long been looked for ; it was bequeathed by a barrister in 1823, subject to his widow’s life interest therein ; the lady survived her husband fiftyseven years ; £B,OOO to executors, by reason of the illegitimacy of an old lady of* Brighton, she having given no directions as to the disposal of the residue of her estate, and there being no next of kin to claim the same ; 100,000dols. to a policeman at Woolwich, is consequence of the death of a relation in America ; 150,000f. to the poor of Paris, owing to a lottery prize-winner failing to come forward.
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Patea Mail, 25 November 1880, Page 4
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177WINDFALLS. Patea Mail, 25 November 1880, Page 4
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