Cat Left £l200.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 25 (Supplement)

Cat Left £l2oo.

The world’s richest cat, living in Lakeland, is to forgo a fortune. She is Molly the Mouser, to whom Miss Jane Barwise, her 73-year-old mistress, when she died last year leaving over £SOOO, bequeathed £I2OO, which, invested, provides a private income of £36 a year for her pet cat. According to the will,

when Molly dies the £I2OO is to be equally divided in legacies of £BO each to Miss Barwise’s fifteen first and second cousins. As a cat’s span of life is 14 years, and many of the residuary legatees are over 60, there is a possibility that Molly, being only five years old, may outlive many of them. Now, however, the relatives have heard that Molly’s fortune is to be handed to them before her death. This i§ due to the generous action of the cat’s keeper and an executor of the will—the Rev George Pallister, of Boltongate Rectory, Mealsgate. who has intimated that he is prepared to assume responsibility tor the cat and allow the £I2OO to be distributed as soon as possible. He “ feels that many of the legatees could probably do with the money now.”