THE LATE MR LEVIN'S WILL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 23

THE LATE MR LEVIN'S WILL.

Wellington, October 18. Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr W. H. Levin. Deceased bequeaths to his wife the sum of £10,000 for her own use, to be paid out of the first moneys which come iiito the hands of his executors. To his aunts — Rose Howe (widow), Sarah Levin (spinster), and Miriam Levin (spinster), all of London— he leaves to each ihe sum of £250. The rest of his real and personal property he leaves iD the hands of the Hon George M'Lean, M.L.C. (of Dunedin), Mr Edward Pearce (merchant, Wellington), and Mr G. Fitzgerald (of Blenheim, civil engineer) in trust. The sheep-farming property at Bowlands is to be held in trust, and, on the eldest son attaining 25 years, offered to the two eldest sons at the amount of valuation ; the amount to be charged against the shares of the sons in the capital of the residuary estate. The sous will be allowed three months in which to accept the offer. If there is only one son surviving, or only one son desires to accept; the estate, the same rights and privileges are to be extended to that son. As to the share in the firm of Levin and Co , the trustees are directed to receive interest and moneys payable and invest them. The trustees are empowered to laave in the hands of the continuing partners in the business a sum nob exceeding £15,000. The Grey and Panama street premises are to b3 let to the continuous partners if required. The remainder of the estate is directed to be sod as soon as convenient to the trustees and the proceeds invested, and out of the income received from all sources pay to Mrs Levin, po long as she lemnins a widow, an annuity of £3000. If she shonl 1 marry again then from the date of marriage she is to receive an annuity of £500. Out of surplus income the trustees are to pay to Fanny Fitzgerald, widow of deceased's brother-in-iaw, an annual sum of £100 so long as she continues a widow. After death or on the second marriage of Mrs Levin the trustees are directed to set apart a sum of £1000 for Hugh Lovin, nephew of deceased, to be paid to him when he reaches 21 years of age. The residuary capital of the estate is to be equally divided among the children. In the event of none of the children reaching 21, after the death ot testator's widow, the whole of the cipital of the trust to be applied to Hugh Levin, nephew of the deceased, and his sister Mrs Geo. Beetham.

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Glasgow, accompanied by Lady Augusta Boyle, Miss Wauchope, and Lieutenant Clayton, aide-de-camp, arrived in town last night by the northern express, en route for Melbourne, for which city they leave to-day. During their stay in Dunedin the party are the guests of the Hon. R. Oliver.

The Land Board, at their meeting yesterday, passed the following resolution of importance to persons who have been exchanging their conditions of tenure for leases in perpetuity :—: — " That the attention of selectors who may have exchanged, or may hereafter exchange, their deferred payment licenses or perpetual leases for leases in perpetuity, under the 150 th section of • The Land Act 1892," be directed to the facb that such exchange leases are subject to the residence and improvement conditions of the said act relating to leases in perpetuity, in pursuance of which there will be required in some cases a further term of residence, in others compulsory residence where, under the original title, there was exemption by effecting double improvements; and in other casei furthtr o; supplementary improvements will be required."

In consequence of the non-adoption by the Government of Colonel Pox's report, the Canterbury Scottish Rifles have decided to disband, and have sold their uniforms to the Bland Holt Company.

By way of training for the Ornithological Society's first race from Oarearu on November 4- next, 20 pigeons were liberated from Seacliff at 1 o'clock on Saturday last by the stationmaster there. The birds all completed the journey in good time.

Vli W. S. Trottier, whose death at the age of. 78 was announced ye 3 tbrday, was one of the early Ota go settiera. He was engaged for some years in pastoral pursuits in the Moeraki district. He afterwards took up the Greenvale station, Lake AVaka* ipu. Some few years ago he removed with his family to Woodlands, near Invercargill.

In the Supreme Court, ChristclVKch, Justice Denniston gave judgment for the Waimakariri Ashley Water Supply Board in the case brought by Mr Marmaduke Dixon, who applied for an injunction restraining the board from making water races.

The Tuaneka Times states that a party of Chinese miners working on the Lammerlaw Ranges, near Cox's reef, Waipori, recently unearthed a nugget weighing 240z 14dwt 18gr, of the value c f about £95.

An inquest was held yesterday on the body found in a decomposed utate in the Molyneus river above Clydevale station on Sunday last. From the evidence it is surmised that deceased was a man named Brown, a wool-classer, who has been missing from Alexandra since the 17th ult. The inquest wa.s adjourned in order that Mrs Brown may be communicated with to see if she can identi p y the clothing found on deceased.

In reference to the drowning fatality between Clyde and Alexandra South, whereby George Phillips lost his life iv the Molyneux river, from particulars to hand it appears that the mtn who were in the boat with him at the time of the accident were carrjing a line from the shore to the dredge, when by a mishap the line became caught and the boat was upset, the five men — Bertie Woods, Henry Hueston, John Sheehy. George Wilson, and George Phillipsbeing thrown into the rushing river. Wilson and Sheehy swam to the dredge, the former being almost exhausted when he reached the deck. Hueston, who allowed himself to be carried down- stream, sank two or three times, but ultimately he reached land about a mile below the dredge. Woods was carried two miles past the dredge before he gained the bank. Phillips, who could not swim, apparently "lost his head" when the boat was capsized, and although Hueston gave him an oar, he could do nothing with it, and sank at once. He leaves a wife and two children. Some few weeks ago his life was insured for £200.