What will Her Majesty do.
An Irish Lady has petitioned the Queen under somewhat peculiar circumstances. The petitioner had an uncle named Alexander Ferdinand Petrie, who entered the army in 1780, serving in the Seventy-ninth regiment. He sold out in ISII and died in 1844, at the age of eighty eight years. He ‘ willed ’ all his property, amounting in cash to about £20,000, to the Queen. His niece, who was left a widow in 1855 with eight daughters and one son, has ever since his death been eking out an existence by the precarious profession of keeping a private school; but this occupation, by reason of her great age and of her growiug blindness, she has had to relinquish. Consequently the prayer of her petition seeks that her case and that of her daughters may be equitably entertained by her Majesty, who, more than thirty years ago, received the whole of their ancestor’s estate as a bequest. Here is, indeed, a chance for the Queen to celebrate her jubilee.—London Truth.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 787, 1 April 1887, Page 4
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