A DEFECTIVE WILL.
Glasgow has just, lost a most valuable prize, owing fo a will not being a valid one. One of.its citizens, Mr John Bell, died recently, leaving a most valuablo collection of 'paintings and works of art, of a total value of £200,000. It is said to have been well known that he intended leaving the treasures to the Glasgow Corporation, and it was anticipated that the Titian's and the Guidos, and Claudes, the Kembrandts, and the B,ubens would indue course of time be handed oyer to tbe public art Unfortunately' it was discovered that Mr Bell's will was written in pencil and bore no signature. As a the town, clerk has been recompelled to advise the Corporation that they have no claim whatever en the pictures, and therefore the treasures will be put up for by auction for the benefit of the heirs. This is not the first time the ambition of a man's life has been fastrated by a legal "hitch." If may te interesting to many to know that the late owner of the £200,000 worth of paintings started in life as a working flasher-'a Scottish trade term, by the way, much more euphonious and pleasant than the barbaric English equivalent used in the colonies—butcher.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 395, 2 June 1881, Page 3
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210A DEFECTIVE WILL. Temuka Leader, Issue 395, 2 June 1881, Page 3
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