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THE LATE MRS. ELIZA
HALL.
PROBATE OF WILL GRANTED.
Sydney, March 16.
Probate has been granted of the will of
Mrs. Eliza Hall, widow of Mr Walter Hall,
who died at her residence, Pott's Point, on
February 14 last. The testatrix appointed
Messrs. Kelso King and Richard Gar-
diner Casey executors and trustees of her
estate. She bequeathed annuities of £156
each to Rebecca Elizabeth Vies, of Kew,
Victoria; Catherina A. Humphries, Hector
A. Humphries of Kingston, England; Mar-
garet Thompson, widow, and Miriam C.
andd Harriet Williams, of North Fitzroy,
Victoria; and the following, among other
legacies:—£20,000 to each of the sons of
her brothers-inlaw, Thomas Skarratt Hall
and Frederick Baines Hall, £20,000 to each
of the daughters of her late brother-in-
-law, James Wesley Hall, £900 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
George King, son of George Marshall King;
£10,000 each to certain members of the
Skarratt family, cousins of her late hus-
band, and Henry Skarratt Brothwood,
chemist, of Manly; £20,000 to her cousin,
George William Ellison, of Melbourne;
£25,000 each to her cousins, G. E. King,
Anna Maria McGregor, and Alicia Martha
Kelso King, wife of Kelso King; £30,000
each to her cousins. Frances Elizabeth Wip-
pell and Sophia Wippell, £15,000 each to
her cousins, John Charles Arthur Wippell,
Emma Rowdon Stokes, and Emily Sophia
Scarce; £10,000 each to her cousins, Fre-
derick W. Wippell, W. A. Dowle
Wippell, George E. Wippell, Harry V.
Wippell, and Charles Rowdon Wippell;
£15,000 to Joan Rowdon Collins, widow of
her late relative, Arthur Collins, of Eng-
land, £20,000 to Charlotte Kirk, widow
of G. M. Kirk, of Brisbane; £10,000 each
to Frances Elizabeth Thomas and Charlotte
Eleanor Stutchbury, daughters of William
Carleton Skarratt, and to Gertrude Skar-
ratt, wife of Charles Skarratt, £6,000 to
Lucy Sheppard, wife of her brother, Wil-
liam Sheppard; £2,000 to her aunt, Mar-
tha White; £1,500 to each of certain re-
latives of hers in England; £2,000 each to
Iris Annie Kelso Waring and Olive May
Kelso King, daughters of Kelso King;
£5,000 each to her medical advisor, Dr.
William Kelty, John Russell French, her
and her late husband's valued friend, and
Adrian Knox, K.C., "in token of the es-
teem and regard in which my husband held
him and in recognition of the services he
rendered in connection with a certain
charitable sentiment created by me."
The testatrix also bequeathed to the Na-
tional Art Gallery of Sydney certain pic-
tures, statuary, and bronzes, including four
reputed Gainsboroughs, an ivory miniature
of Sir Isaac Newton, an oil painting of
William Pitt, by Hoppner, three pictures
by Conrad Martin, two Florentine mosaic
tables, three Carrara marble statuary, busts
of a veiled lady, a gardener's daughter, and
a girl with a woollen wrap and hood, two
bronze horses, and a bust of her late hus-
band by Mackennal. She devised certain
pictures to the Walter and Eliza Hall trust
for its office, certain pictures to Frances
Elizabeth Wippell, and statuary and pic-
tures to Kelso King; certain jewellery that
belonged to her father, mother, and sister,
and her wedding presents to her cousins,
Frances Elizabeth Wippell, Sophia Wip-
pell, and Emma Rowdon Stokes. She be-
queathed the residue of her real and per-
sonal estate to her trustees upon trust as
to her residence, "Avoca," in Melbourne,
to permit Frances Elizabeth and Sophia
Wippell to reside in it during their lives,
to realise the estate, and out of the pro-
ceeds to pay the legacies mentioned in the
will, and to divide the balance and residue
of the proceeds and ready money among
the children of her late hus-
band's brother, Francis Baines
Hall, William Pattison Hall, Grace Hall,
Madge Hall, and Molly Hall, George Kirk,
Elizabeth Lallie Kirk, Frances
Elizabeth Thomas, Charlotte Eleanor
Stutchbury, Donald F. Skarratt, Gertrude
Skarratt, Henry Skarratt Brothwood,
Frances Eliza Wippell, George William
Ellison, Alicia Martha Kelso King, Anna
Maria Macgregor, George Kirk, Sophia
Whippell, Emma Rowden Stokes, Emily
Sophia Scarce, Frederick Walter Whippell,
William Alfred Dowle Wippell, George E.
Wippell, Harry Vincent Wippell, John
Charles Arthur Wippell, and Charles Row-
den Wippell, legatees under the will, in
the proportion of the legacies bequeathed
to them by the will. The trustees were
empowered to postpone the realisation of
the estate until they thought it expedient.
To each of them she bequeathed a legacy
of £15,000 in lieu of any commission they
would be entitled to. The legacies were
to be paid free of stamp duties.
The net value of the New South Wales
estate was sworn at £802,448, of which
£196,365 consisted of realty, £93,648 shares
in public companies, £64,928 money at cur-
rent account, £210,615 debentures,
£167,918 mortgages, and £51,273 money on
deposit.