CURIOUS STORY OF A WILD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 148, 2 July 1881, Page 3

CURIOUS STORY OF A WILD.

The 16nrlo«Wd-ror will of tht Itte Mr. William B«ker, farmer,, Fembnton, member of the WigatT Board l of Giurdiani f.»r nuny years. Jus been discovered under cireamsUncet of a aoipewliti peculiar' cnVraeteri' ' r MW- Baker died oti 15th September, 1879, ;at an advance age and left an estate the total value of which was put down at L 69.000. At no will could be found, proceedings were" taken m X^t Probate 'Divitsiou to Msertam who wat this next heir, two perioni«omm? I forward. «ne bettig Mr. Abraham Rothwell, and tho other Mrt Elizabeth IsUerwood. The jury found that Mr Rothwell wic the first ooium, and therefore entitled to the real estate. No furthrr action was t«k«n until 'atehr, when the will wat Incidentally discovered ia a book is) thiwtiliftg separating tne kitchen from theb^room above. It wat wrapped m itihrown paper parcel, and was found m abook writtea by the late Lord St Leonards, entitled "Hints on Wills, 1 ' .and; at the page given directions^at to attestations. The document is m Mr. Baker's own handwriting, and it pare fully J and succinctly drawn. The attesting witnesse* have both since died While engaged m removing a churn m the kitchen one of the persons observed a hole m the ceiling: and putting his m he felt the book, which he pulled out r and which contained the lo«t willpit 1« said th»t Mr William Baker, of thejfirra of Meters Baker and Valiant. iroimongcrti Wifan, it the prineipa 1 hfneflfiarj under the will, and that th. chief relatives of the def eased are also | remembered. TTnleM the TaMdity of the , will: ia caateated the legal proceeding« ] #hiith ar« now going on will m all pro- i haWlit.V">» -tayed, and the estate divided 'amoogsMkose entitled thereto. , ■