HORDERN FORTUNE.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 2

HORDERN FORTUNE.

WILL OF LEBEEUS. SYDNEY. Octol.o?’ °S. Airs Lebb. us Hordern, to whom her husband left in tract ions in his will to he irustee to pay the iecom ' from She £250.000 (‘state (less, of course, lhe dut’as payable and other charges) to lhe w’.d »w Mrs Frances Ma.’ llorI ’ll. du-.i g for life. Th .'(‘fore lhe eslure is to be held in lint fo: Mr Hordern’s daughters Jif any) and fa’ling the birth of any daughters, i is to be divid( d into three -hares—one .‘hare fur the son of hi sister Mrs Ollivn r, one share fop the laughter of his sister Mrs 11:11, and Ih r. niainiiig .share for the children of Percy S. B-ofi. No provision is .mad? in the will for Lebb us Anthony Hordera, the child of the fir.-t marriage, at present 14 years old, for the reason that the ife intern t which Lebb us Hordern held in hi fath<r’s huge estate passed at his death to the boy absolutely. What young Lebbeus Anthony Horlern will be worth when he comes .of age It is net po ; s::ble yet o say—the •:g fort' no I ft him under his grandfathe: ’s w.H % by that time will have ha i seven ye is in which to accumuIt v ill be recalled that a few years •’go Olga llord'i’:i secured a decree is' against .he late Mr II irdern. "he marriage settlemen to his first wife, amounting to several thousands a year, will oc continu d during her l.fe.

After the present Mrs Iloidcrn’s <1 ath, Mr Ilor-’ern private estate got s to certain nephews and niece' s .