A PECULIAR WILL.
MAORI'S VALUABLE ESTATE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ""'' '•>>•.."■ ' '■"" '"'" WELT,rNUTO.v, " Thursday. Property to the value of sonic £10,000 was involved in a case in which the Native Appellate Court gave judgment to-day. It concerned the will of Wi Matua, of Hawke's Bay, made in 1903. In addition to devises to the testator's wife and other persons, a devise was made of the testator's interest in land comprised in the Whawajkanga Block to Charles William Reardon. [The devise was subject to a provision that within 12 months of the granting of probate of the will, Reardon should pay all the testator's debts. The first application for probate was heard by Judge Butler, but he died without giving a decision. On a rehearing, before Judge Palmer, probate was refused, on the ground that the circumstances attendant upon the execution of it he will were such as to cast upon it a i suspicion that it was nob the last will of a free and capable testator.
The Appellate Court to-day upheld the judgment of. the Native Land Court, and dismissed the appeal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 5 July 1907, Page 5
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181A PECULIAR WILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 5 July 1907, Page 5
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