Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Saturday 28 August 1897, page 7


SIR HENRY AYERS'S WILL.

SWORN AT UNDER £226,000.

On Friday the will and codicil of the late Sir Henry Ayers, G.C.M.G., was lodged for probate by Messrs. Ayers & Gall, solicitors to the executors, the gross value of the estate being

sworn at under £220,000. The trustees and executors named in the will are the testator's sons Frank Richman Ayers, Harry Lockett Ayers, and Frederic Ayers, but the last named having predeceased the testator probate will be taken by the two former. The whole estate is devised and bequeathed to the trustees upon trust after payment of debts and liabili ties, and the following annuity and legacies-for the testator's four sons, Frank Richman Ayers, Harry Lockett Ayers, Frederic Ayers, and Arthur Ernest Ayers in equal shares, with a provision for division as therein men-tioned amongst the children of any son who should predecease the testator of a aim equiva-lent to the value of the share which the deceased son would have taken had he sur-vived the testator. The annuity and legacies, in addition to provision made for old servants, are:— Mr. John Breaks Ayers (brother of testator), annuity of £300 per annum. Mrs. John Bagot (daughter), in addi-tion to settlement and bequest of carriages and horses .. ... ... ... ... £2,000 The Lady Ayers Homes ... ... ... ... .. £300 Home for Incurables ... ... ... ... ... £100 Adelaide Children's Hospital... ... .. £100 The Sisters of St. Joseph ... ... ... ... 100 St. Margaret's Convalescent Hospital £50 Tbe Samaritan Fund, Adelaide Hospital ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. £50 S.A. Institution for Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Brighton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £50 Industrial School for Blind, N. A. ... £50 Church of England Institute ... ... ... £30 Young Men's Christian Association... £50 The above are free of succession duty, which is to be paid out of the estate.

The Rev. K. T. Dunstan, of Pitt-street Con-gregational Church, Sydney, who is visiting this colony in connection with the special meetings of the South Australian Auxilliary of the London Missionary Society, which are being held, is announced to preach at the Port Congregational Church to-morrow morning. A journal in Madrid tries to increase its circulation by printing its news not on paper but on linen. Instead of ink a composition is used which readily dissolves in a liberal water bath. After absorbing the news the reader merely places the sheet under a public foun-tain and there is a snowy handkerchief. All plants, even in tropical countries, require a period of rest. Some repose in the rainy, others in the dry, and others again in the cold or in the hot season. Herr Johannsen, a Scandinavian, believes he can abridge this period by intensifying the "sleep" with chloro-form or ether. Bulbs or buds exposed to the vapors of these anaesthetics resume their period of activity sooner than those not so treated. It has also been observed that the tubercules of orchids placed near warming pipes and then more completely dried began to spring sooner than others kept in the ordi-nary way.