THE LATE DR. CLEARY

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 13

THE LATE DR. CLEARY

PROVISIONS OF WILL Auckland, January 31. The estate of the late Henry William Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was sworn in the Supreme Court at under £l5OO. Probate and letters of administration were granted by Mr. Justice Smith. . r, i To the Sisters of,the Sacred Heart, Victoria Avenue, Remuera, the late Bisiiop Cleary bequeathed a metal military helmet used by him in France and Belgium during the war years 1916 and 1917, together with a captured German bayonet and Brazilian dagger and all fragments of shells -and other trophies, of the war which he had collected during his service as chaplain. An inlaid sword presented by King George 111. to a Maori chief, and which later came into the possession of the late Bishop, was bequeathed to the Sisters of Sacred Heart, together with a written description and history of the sword. Part of the estate was bequeathed to his nephew, John Cleary, soon to. be ordained td the P l ; icstlloo , d ’, l aud ( . !l w.W i C Miss Marie M. Cleary both of Y elliiGton, and to the succeeding Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. A direction in the Bishop s will read as follows: “My mind having always been in revolt against the pagan note of hope lessness of the ‘Dead March in Saul, I direct that it shall not be .Played at or in connection with any pait of the ceremonies connected with my interment."