AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7222, 18 July 1884, Page 8

AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

Auckland, June 25. Sometime ago Colonel Johnston, of Raglan, a relative of tho late Colonel Speedy, committed suicide, and probate is now being asked for his will, of which tho following is a copy : —“ I, John Campbell Johnston, do hereby make this last will and testament, revoking all others. I bequeath my soul to my great Creator, who aits throned with the care of millions of worlds, which I behove He governs by fixed laws. Through his infinite mercy I hope for progressive happiness after the life which is possibly punishment for ‘ sins done in some old worlds.’ I bequeath my body to fire. I believe burning the dead to be classical aud cleanly, and, with respect to the living, for sanitary aud other reasons, the best mode of disposing of the dead. I request that my families do not go into mourning for me. My wife, Emilia Johnston, is provided for by marriage settlement to an extent I am not in a position to increase. I bequeath all my property, real and personal, of which I may die possessed, iu equal shares to ray children, X desire my sons to strive against the abominable injustice of the swindlers calling themselves the Government of New Zealand, who, for the purpose of enriching themselves, borrowed many millions from people in England, who X have repeatedly warned, through the Press of England, that they will lose their money. Tho rising generation of New Zealand is not answerable for debts thus contracted by English adventurers; they neither borrowed nor benefited by this money ; but, on the contrary, it is the cause of our now suffering increased taxation on the necessaries of life. I de.-ire my sous to expect a day when it will be their duty to resist the repayment of this money, of which the other island has had the Hon’s share of the plunder."