AUSTRALIAN NEWS
LATE Sill JOHN HAY'S ESTATE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrign Sydney, August 12. The net value of tile estate of the lute Sir John Hay has been sworn foi probate at £1211,000. Deceased's halfbrotber, Alexander Hay, is to get £.30,000, and his hall-sisters £10,(100 each, willi equal shares in the ultimate residue of the estate after other claims have been salislicd. The bequests include tMOOU to the Children's Hospital and St. Andrew's College, and .WOO each to tin. Presbyterian churches at Berry and North Sydney.
CHINESE INDICNANT. Sydney, Ailgu.it 12. Owing to family bereavement the Chinese Coiisul-dencral left for China on a brief visit by the Japanese mail steamer. The Chinese residents here were so indignant at his travelling by a Japanese steamer that they refused' to see aim off. CONCENTIiATIo.V OF CIIJi.ViINALS. I Sydney, August li | In pursuit of tiie policy of concentratl( f eriniiuals. twenty-four gaols belonging to the State 'will be closed on August Hi. The building, henceforth wul be used as lock-ups. SUSPICIOUS DEATHS. • Perth, August li An inquest on (he bodies of three children named Morris, who were recent ly exhumed, is exciting interest. Thev dud in July, IHU7, and October, HIIIH. -Medical evidence shows signs „| .Truant poison. Two brothers allege that a woman mimed Kendcll, living with them, gave spirits of salts to their deceased brother to gargle his throat.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 172, 13 August 1909, Page 2
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