PRIEST'S WILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 81, 5 April 1940, Page 5

PRIEST'S WILL.

ESTATE OF £9100. BROTHER'S ALLEGATION. : BRED RACEHORSES Df HJE. (From Oar Own Corresponds*.) SYDNEY, March 2L The Probate Court this week npheH the £9400 will of a. Catholic priest, Father Farthing, who wac said to hare bred racehorses in Xew Zealand. Father Farthing, of Cronulla, was the only Catholic in a family of 12. He wae said to hare been a parish priest in Xew Zealand before he came to Australia. He died in July last year. Father Farthing left most of bis estate to a sister, Mrs. Seward, and » niece, Mrs. Daphne Beubow, and appointed as Iris executor* a Bandwick j stipendiary steward, and Brother Benignus, of Oak Hill. His brother, James Brown Farthing, taxi-driver, of jWoollahra, and one of his sisters, Mrs. lE. M. A. Williamson, of Bandwick, jalleged that Father Farthing had not known of the contents of the -will and that it had been procured by n»vfiM> influence by the beneficiaries. Mrs. Benbow, who waa questioned about her uncle's alleged racing operations, eaid in evidence that she did not know whether he had bred a horse called Xedda or had called other hones Prendergast and Benignus after hie friends. All she knew was that he had a few horses in New Zealand. The judge held that there wae no evidence to justify upsetting the will and admitted it to probate.