Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 29 May 1897, page 9


TASMANIA.

HOBART, Friday.

At the Supreme Court, in chambers, to day, the Chief Justice dealt with a peculiar application Joseph Parker and his wife Matilda were on the 25th January last found dead in bed The woman had a gunshot wound, and her husband had evidently died from natural causes Parker died intestate, and, leaving some property, the question arose as to which of the two died first Counsel produced a letter, badly written, and presumably written by the wife, in which she said she found " old Joe " dead, so she thought she would die, too, along with the old fellow The SolicitorGeneral argued that there was no proof that the husband died first and the estate therefore should revert to the Crown The Chief Justice thought otherwise, and ruled that the relatives of the wife were entitled to half of the estate

The ship Loch Cree has arrived from London. The barque Glenmark, which put into port on the 20th in distress, will have to discharge a portion of her cargo for repairs The vessel is too large for the Hobart slips, but the Melbourne Lloyds' surveyor is expected per the Hauroto to inspect her