THE WILLIS HOLDINGS.
A SUSPICIOUS APPLICATION
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
BRISBANE, March 16. (Received March 17, at 10.50 a.m.)
An application was made before the Chief Justice by Mrs Willis for probate of a will ■under which she is appointed trustee for her son in the matter of 20.000 acres of land at Cunnamulla. The Chief Justice said the circumstances of the case were peculiar. Mrs Willis is the wife of W. N. Willis, concerned in the land transactions in New South Wales, and already holds three blocks of 20,000 acres adjoining the one she seeks-.to control under the wilL The Act limits the holding of grazing lands to 60,030 acres. The witnesses to the will are Hoakings and M'Nair, whose names also are well known The Chief Justice held that the circumstances were so suspicious that he must adjourn the application for fuller investigation.
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Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 5
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144THE WILLIS HOLDINGS. Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 5
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