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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 986, 23 April 1862, Page 4

The will of William Stevens Richardson, Esq., formerly of Tanfield-eourt, Temple, but late of Dorset place, Marylebone, was proved on Nov. 20 by Henry Hobhouse, Esq.. Rev. E. A. Ulingworth, M.A., and W. S. Cookson, Esq., executors and trustees. The personalty was sworn under £30,000. The will, with a codicil, bears date in 1859. Mr. Richardson was the brother-in-law of the Right ttev. G. A. Selwyn, D.D., Lord Bishop of New Zealand, to whose wife (the testator's sister,) in conjunction with his lordship, a life interest in the 'handsome fortune of tlie testator is bepeatlied, their two sons receiving it almost absolutely on the decease of their parents, There In legacy of £500 to tlio Rev, (1 WalW, MA, together with some paintings, books, fee, and a few other pecuniary legacies to friends, and to his former laundress n weekly allowance of 12s for life. To his nephew, William Selwyn, he bequeaths the candelabra presented to the testator's father by King George IV. and the University of Cambridge; and also the salver presented by certain members of "Nobody's " Club. The testator has bequathed a valuable collection of classical and other works of antiquity to the Cathedral Library of New Zealand, this bequest is to be free of legacy duty. A New Suekp Washing Contrivance.—The winners of Messrs. Mort and Co.'s gold medal for the best sample of wool washed on the sheep's back well deserve their reward ; and we hope it will prove a lesson to many others as well as ouV great wool producers. Messrs. Bloomfield and Kiley had many things to contend against ; amongst others, they had no running water to wash in, and in fact nothing but a waterhole. To overcome this, and to enable them to get up their wool so as to realise the full value of it. they applied to Mr. Edward Bingham. Agricultural Engineer, of York street, who furnished them with plans oi it simple but most powerful pump: and under his superintendence two have been made for them by Mr. William Plant, of the Willow Tree Works, Sydney. It would be impossible to explain these pumps without illustrations of them; butthey are very simple and strong—not liable to be injured —and Mr. Bloomfield speaks in very high terms of the benefit of them. He says that no'wool grower who does not possess a running stream ought to be without one. Some of the Queensland squatters who were present at the Exhibition, and who have had them made and used them this season, spoke in the highest terms of them, and said they enabled them in several cases to save their clips from the grass seeds!, as by their aid they could wash double the number they could by any other means ; and by increasing their shearers, get done sooner. We congratulate Mr. Bingham on hisfr'ivention and trust he will be supported. We understand he has this season perfected a new threshing machine, of which practical men speak highly. Those who desire to succeed in this colony, whether in wool-growing or farming,must see the advantage of following the example of Messrs. Bloomfield and liilcy. ' The ri<{ht man in the right place,' they say in England.' Here we may say, ' the right machine in the right place' is what is required: and Mr. Edward Bingham is a man well qualified to provide one for/my of our producers.— Newcastle tree Fress.