A MISER'S BEQUEST.
FORTUNE LEFT FOR RECREATION PURPOSES. Received November 1, 8.45 a.m. , LONDON, October 31. John' Watson, who made ten thousand pounds in Australia, and who afterwards lived in a miserly fashion at Portadown, Ireland, where he died, bequeathed his fortune to the town for recreation purposes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8870, 2 November 1907, Page 5
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48A MISER'S BEQUEST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8870, 2 November 1907, Page 5
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