LODGED FOR PROBATE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 6

LODGED FOR PROBATE.

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES

Following are the principal estates in the Dominion which were lodged for probate last month: — Wellington: Henry Plimmer £22,343, Julia Ellis £9996, Charles T. iliehardson £7755», George Thompson £6573, John Harris £4494, Mary M'Gregor £3866,. Samuel R. Johnson £3770, George Allerby £3640, Philip James Arnaboldi £3621, Benjamin Curtis £3424, Eliza Mayo, £3057, Charles H. H. Cook £2951, Hans Peter Petersen £2698, John Bryron £2433, Wilhelm Gernschkat £2376, Katherine' C. Hutton £2158, Alexander J. Willis £2112, Elizabeth C. Martin £1632, John Carroll £1459, John Dalziel £1351, Francis E. Lerwill £1102, Robert North Keeling £963, Thomas Dunmill £942, Kate Thdrley £905, Henry R. Robertson £886, John Cullington £821, Jane O. C Ford £817, Jacob Edge £708, James Purkiss £672, Isabella Sinclair £651, John Conroy £575, John Ford £551 Walter M. Scott £527. Auckland: Francis E. N. Crombie £9467, Jessie Prime £4871, Luis A. Nathan £4729, Lewis R. Hardy, £4439, Charles E. Ifwerson £3743. Henry Gollan £3607, Tom Bramwell £2887, Martha Wayte £2881, Michael Whelan £1907; Fred. E. Baume £1757, Francis Kelfoyle £1677■; Mary, Sankey £1330> Bernard Foy \ £1314/. Geoi^e> üßalme '£1310, Alexander M^Cknii £1273, Albert. E. Moginis £1248, Charles Johnson £1230, Emily Bean £975, Caroline Davis £817, James Dodd £767, Alex. E. Uloth £745, Matthew Wallace £732, Maria L. M'Master £690, Joseph Harper £582, Thomas Rowley £524, Margaret Grant £519, Edwin Marcroft £510. Canterbury: Joseph Barker £15,----293, William K. Duncan £8959, Michael Guerin £3618, Frances Bowman £3432, Thomas Williams £2567, George T. G. Jones £2498, Michael Frost £2383, John T. Ford £1985, George Milne £1914, Richard Smith £1891, John Bugg £1228, George T. Mason £1183, Rebecca A. Sparks £959, Anne Dale £887, Charles Massey £882, Thomas Ritchie £837, Howard C. Jacobson £755, Crighton Carey £745, William Gray £683, Frank H. Hart £583. Margaret Coote £529. Dunedin,: A. J. S. Headland £13,----445, Thomas Keenan £10,730, Alexander Sligo. £8484, Jane Brownlee £5738, John H. Irvine £3278, Elspeth Duncan £2781, William Hewitt £2380, William F. C. Back £2227, Selmyn Vidal £1298, Winifred M'Tigue £1026, Robert M'Gregor £889, Alick 1. Forbes £568, John Horan £549. Gisborne: Hannah P. Kenway £3531, Walter J. Sykes £843. Napier: John J, Connor £17,826, Harriett Cowper £712. Taranaki: Charles Tait £17,646, Arthur A. Fantham £10,144, Donald Buchanan £8220, Edward Okey £4515, Wm. H. N. Rossiter £2390, Arthur E. Atkinson £2049, William S. Wakelin £942, Thomas M'Guinness £776. Blenheim: George T. Cheesman £2952, Lauritz Borck £2335. Nelson: Charlotte M. Batchelor £3383, Henry Hollis £2171, Joseph Hoult £16l8 r Arthur Tomlinson £1057. Hokitika: Frederick C. Cambridge £832, Alexander M'Kenzie £531. Southland: James Miller £4566; William S. M'Donald £2409, Steffan S. Mosan £1581, Henry Gray £1519, John Pullar £1262, Edward Maxted £812,

The Hon. Dr Findlay, Minister for Justice, interviewed regarding the statements made by Mr H. W. Northcroft, S.M., in Auckland on Monday, relative to political interference with Magistrates, said he was utterly at a loss to understand Mr Northcroft's remarks. They came as an absolute surprise to him, and during his tenure of office as Minister for Justice no suggestion had ever reached him of anything of the kind. He had on occasion been written to by persons with cases before the court, but had at all times uniformly refused to take any action whatever, the procedure in the matter of appeal to a higher court being open to those not satisfied with the Magisterial decisions. "I am quite unable to understand Mr Northcroft's remarks, and can only ask him to mention any circumstances which would bear out his statements," added the Minister, "for I know that my predecessor in office was just as careful as I have been to see that no outside influence, political or otherwise, is allowed to interfere with our judicial system." Some time ago an art union was arranged in aid of the Auckland Jubilee Institute for the Blind, the speculative attraction being the representation of a lion skilfully worked in silk. Among those who purchased tickets in this union was a gentleman who bought several tickets and departed, after announcing his name, the only part of which that the young lady who dealt out the tickets could catch being the prefix "Mac." A few days later "Mac," repenting him of. his extravagance, called again, and demanded his money back in exchange for the tickets, and on receiving a polite but firm denial, departed in anger, leaving the tickets behind him. And one of those tickets has captured the lion. But Mr "Mac" has not materialised from the day of bis second visit. The use of strychnine on carrot baits as a poison for rabbits is reported to be proving remarkably successful in Victorian country districts. Tho carrots are sprinkled with sugar, and left for two or three nights in succession in furrows in some rabbitinfested locality. The rabbits soon acquire a taste for tho new food., arid devour it eagerly. Then on the third or fourth night the bait is sprinkled j with strychnine in the proportion of loz. to 101b or 121b of carrots. • ■ ■•'COAOrUNF.. 11 "KLINX," ••'TTnNARTTTNtf" CW.ents for breakages, mannfao+.nriner purposes. *vfco.