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LATE MRS. WALTER HALL.
PROVISIONS OF WILL.
SYDNEY, Thursday.-Probate has been
granted to the will of Mrs. Eliza Rowdon
Hall, widow of the late Walter Hall, who
died at Pott's Point on February 14. Tes-
tatrix appointed Messrs. Kelso King, and
Richard Gardiner Casey executors and
trustees of her estate. She bequeathed
annuities of £156 each to Rebecca Eliza-
beth Vines, of Kew, Victoria; Catherine
A. Humphries, Hector A. Humphries, of
Kingston, England; Margaret Thompson,
widow, Mariam O. Williams, and Harriett
Williams, of North Fitzroy, Victoria.
Among other legacies she left the follow-
ing:-£20,000 to each of the sons of her
brother-in-law, Thomas Skarratt Hall and
Frederick Baines Hall; £20,000 to each of
the daughters of her late brother-in-law
(James Wesley Hall); £9,000 to each of
the children of the late Charles Carleton
Skarratt, an uncle of her late husband;
£5,000 to Louisa Hall, widow of her
brother-in-law (Albert Hall); £20,000 to
Geo. Kirk, son of G. Marshall Kirk; £10,000
each to certain members of the Skarratt
family, cousins of her late husband; Henry
Skarratt Brothwood, chemist, of Manly,
£8,500; £20,000 to her cousin, George W.
Ellison, of Melbourne; £25,000 each to her
cousins, G. E. Kirk, Anna Maria McGre-
gor, and Alicia Martha Kelso King, wife
of Mr. Kelso King; £30,000 each to her
cousins, Frances Elizabeth Whippell and
Sophia Whippell; £15,000 each to her
cousins, John Charles Arthur Whippell,
Emma Rowdon Stokes, and Emily Sophia
Scarce; £10,000 each to her cousins, Frede-
rick W. Whippell, W. A. Dowie Whippell,
George E. Whippell, Harry V. Whippell,
and Charles Rowdon Whippell; £15,000
each to Joan Rowdon Collins, widow of
the late Arthur Collins, of England; £20,000
to Charlotte Kirk, widow of the late George
Kirk, of Brisbane; £10,000 each to Frances
Elizabeth Thomas and Charlotte Eleanor
Stutchbury, daughter of William Carleton
Skarratt, and Gertrude Skarratt, wife of
Charles Skarratt; £6,000 to Lucy Sheppard,
wife of her brother, William Shep-
pard; £2,000 to her aunt, Martha
White; £1,500 to each of certain
relatives of hers in England; £2,000 each
to Iris Annie Kelso Waring and Oliver May
Kelso King, daughter of Kelso King; £5,000
each to her medical adviser, Dr. William
Kelty, and John Russell French, her and
her late husband's valued friend, and Adrian Knox, K.C. Testatrix also bequeathed to the National Art Gallery of Sydney pic-
tures, statuary, and bronzes, including four purported Gainsboroughs, an ivory minia-
ture of Sir Isaac Newton, an oil-painting
of William Pitt (by Hoppner), and pictures
by other well-known artists. The trustees
were empowered to postpone the realisa-
tion of the estate until such time as they
thought most expedient, and to each of them
she bequeathed a legacy of £15,000 in lieu
of any commission. The net value of the
New South Wales estate was sworn at
£802,442.