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Mon 20 Nov 1911 - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930)
Page 9 - A MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE.
A MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE.
A
MR. WALTER HALL'S WILL
list of the bequests.
As already stated application hps been made
jor probate of the win of tho lu'.e Mr. Waltei
R. Hall, the total value or wnoso osiato in jncw
Soutu \vaics is declared lo be £2,311,000. The
will was drawn iu lalili, and tho executrix and
executors aru Mrs. Waiter H. Hull, Mr. Richard
Gardiner Casey, and Mr.- Kelso King. The Ue-
ceaseu s widow, Eliza Rowuen Hall, is ap
pointed the residuary legatee, and succeeds to
tlie whole of her husband's property after the
oequosis In the will and codicils have been
discnurged.
The testator ordered tho following legacies to
be paid out of Uis estate; To his wite, £1UO,UOU;
id tne wife of his brother. Thomas Skarratt Hull
and her children, £4U,oU0, to be settled in a
particular manner set1 out In tbo will; to bis
uro tiler, James Bains Hall, nnd bis wife and
cniluren, £-10,000, upon certain conditions; to
his trustees, £3u,o0u ou trust, for tne disposal
ot the sumo tor such lawful local churuabio
uses ns tney may mink lit; to euch child of
his biotnur, jauies Wesley Hall, £1000; to
each oana of his uncle, Cburlcs Carlton tikar-
ratt, £UU00; to Louisa Hall, widow of his
late brother, Henry Albert Hall, of Porter's
Head (England;, £&000; lo his hrothor-in-law,
George Marshall Klrlt, of Albion, Brisbano,
£500o; to each of the daughters of his lute
uncle, William Carlton Skarratt, £4000; ' to
Donald Skarratt,' soii of William Carlton Skar
ratt, £4000; to each of tho other sons of Wil
liam Carlton Skarratt, £3000; to Mrs. Ward,
daughter of his uncle, Thomas c. Skarratt,
£4000; to Harry S. Brolhwood, of Leichhardt,
chemist, £4000; to each, of his uncles, Charles
Carlton Skarrutt and Thomas Carlton Skarratt,
£1000'; to Miss Frances Wippell and G. W.
Ellison, of Melbourne, relatives of his widow,
£3000 each; to Kelso King, £2000; to his old
clerk, Fredk. William Edwards, of Sydnoy,
£500; to each servant, both male and female,
in his omploy at tho timo of his death, such
sum as would equal three months' wages for
every year thoy had respectively boon In his
employ; to his trustees, all tho principal and
interest of thu moneys owing or accruing duo
lo him on mortgages for tho sum of £4000 on
properties known as Oldorfleet and Realto, Col
lins-street, Melbourne, and also on a mortgago
for tlie sum of £20;060 on 100 acres of land near
Glen Iris-road, hear Melbourne, with a direc
tion that tho trustees settlo the moneys or
properties comprised in the mortgages upon
tho same, or similar trusts in favor ot tho
wife and childron of his brother, Thomas Skar
ratt Hall, as they would settlo tho before-
mentioned sum of £40,000; to William Cbands
Hall, cortain property at Wcntworth Falls;
and to George Marshall Kirk, a residence at
Albion, Brisbano.
Tho first codicil of the will bequeaths all
the real and personal estate to which testator
is entitled In Queensland to his wlfo absolutely;
and In tho second codicil a second bequest ot
£30,000 Is mado to. the trustcos on trust; to bo
used for such, lawful cliaritablo uses In tho
State of Queensland ns they may think fit.
There Is also a boquost of £1000 to his butler,
William Shepherd, In addition to the amount to
urhich he becomes entitled under the will.