SIR WALTER BULLERS WILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13297, 2 October 1906, Page 7

SIR WALTER BULLERS WILL.

HIS COLLECTION OF MAORI CURIOS. [FROM OCR OWN" correspondent.] H LONDON, September 1. It was announced recently that Sir Walter Lawry Duller. K.C.M.G., F.R.S., left estate in the United Kingdom of the gross value of £15,462, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £14,914. : Probata' of his will, dated December 22, 1894, with three codicils, has been granted to .his eons, Mr. Arthur Percival Buller and Mr. '.Walter Leopold Buller, barristers-at-law, both of the Royal Societies Club, St. James'-street, London, to each of whom ho bequeathed 100 guineas. He left £500 to his sister, Mrs. Lilla Bourke; £200 and land costing £800 to his grandson, G. Madocks; £5000 to each of his sons Arthur Percival and Walter Leopold, and to his daughter, Mrs. Laura Matlocks; and he left the Papaitonga Estate and £21,000 upon trust for liis said cliildreitf with remainder in'ioacbcase -to their issue. ■■) -.. Sir Walter Buller left his collection of Maori curios, birds, etc., and pictures of New Zealand life to his sons in equal shares, requesting them to retain this collection in the family, but if they should not wish to do so first to offer the collection as a whole at a fair valuation to. the New Zealand Government, for the proposed National Maori Museum, and subject thereto that the first offer of the collection of birds should he made to the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 'who has in his museum at Tring ..the finest collection of New Zealand birds." He also made the following bequests: £1000 upon trust, to found a Maori scholarship, to be called the Buller scholarship, tenable by Maoris, but not by Europeans or haltcastes :j £100 to -the Bishop of Wellington for St. Paul's Cathedral, and the work of the church of which ho was a member; £100 to the Wellington Benevolent Society; #100 to the WeEleyan Church in the Wellington districts, of which his father, the Rev. James Puller, was '* so distinguished an ornament:" £50 to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington: £50 to Dr. Barnardo's Homes; £50 to the Home for the Aged and Needy at Wellington; £50 to the Wellington Convalescent Homo; £5 on each Christmas Dav to his old servant, Margaret Ross. . ' The residue of the estate is left in equal shares. to the children of the testator.