£4,300,000 FORTUNE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 253, 18 July 1908, Page 9

£4,300,000 FORTUNE.

. "SILENT SMITH'S" LEGACIES IN j GREAT BRITAIN. - • 1 ' After,,, many months' delay the, estate of ( Mr. James Henry Smith, popularly known j ai," Silent Smith," who died suddenly while j travelling in Japan a year ago, has been , officially appraised at Port Jervis, New York. , ' The personal property is valued at £4,310,112, of which £2,403,207 is in bonds. 1 Real estato,is valued at £483,217. . j The following aro some of the chief be- i quests:— - < ■To Mrs. Annio Armstrong Smith, his < widow, £600,000. t To Mrs. Anita Stewart, of London, his < stepdaughter, a life interest in £80,580, and' l to her children £19,447. '( ; To ■ Lady Mary Cooper, his sister, of ,1 Hursloy Park, Winchester, England, ai-life : interest 'in £117,783. i i To Mr. George J. Robertson Copper, his i nephew, to Miss May. Phoebe Cooper, his i liihce, and to Mr. Alastair' Robertson Coo- 1 per, his nephew, of Hursloy Park, each £20,735. To Mr. James C. Keith, of Vancouver (u.c.), £25,ooo:: . . i

The avowed wholesale objector to sport is ! not a person who need be seriously considered, for he is either to be classed with ■ thoso who aro blind simply becauso they will I not see, or included among those who aro s perverso enough to play the part of the fox r which is unable to reach the. grapes.— t Hlfiddj'- (