A CURIOUS WILL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 369, 27 June 1884, Page 2

A CURIOUS WILL.

Auckland, Jane > 25.-^ Some- time ago Captain Johnston, of Kaglan, a relative of the late Colonel Speedy, committed; suicide. Probate^s ' now ' being asked for his will, of which the following is a oopy;- — "I, tfph^'tpampJiplV Jo^iyslftii^ ~40 \-heretyy make this last will and testament, revoking all others. I .bequeath my soul to the great Creator, who sits throned with the care oi' millions of hvorldfe, which', 'I believe,, He governs by fixed laws. Through ! hi's ; infinite mercy. I itbpe'fof prdgyes'sive happiness after this life, which is . possibly puiu'sh^oqt .for sins in s6mo- ' old' Worlu. • i b,dq,'u^'a,th 'my body, to; -L belie Vii biu'tu"ng the dead to be 'classical and. cleanly , and,, wjih, yeupeut to the living, for- sanitary' and other reasons, the best made qf disposing of the desid. I requost'that my family do ■ uob go intp mourning for. Nic My wifo, Emilia Johnston,, is provided for by a marriage settlement to an extent, lam not in a position to increase it. i bequeath all my luropcrty real and personal, qf which X ina.y~'d;ie possessed, iv . ,equal, sh.^rci'l.to '^.rn.y • fthjtldven.— (lSra,ra^s r 'giv.en). •' I desiiV my soi\a jto strive againgt fcho aboiiiinq,bl© t injustice 1 of the swindlers calling themselves the ' GovcnijmentoJ; New- Zealand, whq, forthq purpose of enriching themselves, have borrowed many millions from trie people b£ England, whom I have repeatedly warned) through the press of England, that they >yiU jjose their rhbuey. The. rishag generation of Wfiw Zealand is not' answerable for the d^bta thus contracted' 'by ISxTglisU a^Yejittireis. They neither bovrqwed, iioi- benefited Iby this money, but, (in the 'contrary, it is the cause of our now suffer ing,, the iucveasud 'taxation on the necessaries o£ life. I desire imy sous to' expect a day when it will be thJeir duty to resist . the re-payment of thAa n , e I) °£ which the other island has h^dj thp ' lion's share of the plunder,