No
15.
RECT
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REGL FEE IS
65
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 6th. January, 1916.
Sir,
It has recently come to my notice that the establishment of the Hospital known as the Matilda Hospital has
never been reported to you and that although references to it have
been made in the appendices to the Blue Book it has not been
mentioned under the heading "Institutions not supported by Govern-
-mant". I regret the omission.
2.
Mr. Granville Sharp, who died in 1899, gave
the residue of his estate in trust for the erection and mainte-
-nance of a Hospital at Mount Kellett to be called the Matilda Hospital. The Hospital was to be of a particular and limited nature, md a doubt arose as to whether the whole of the residuary estate would not be too large an endowment for such a Hospital. An action was therefore begun in 1904 by the trustees of the will and the next of kin, who claimed the surplus if any, for the construct- -ion of the will. The Attorney-General was made a party as re- -presenting the Crow, which, as parens patriae, is concerned in the administration of charities generally. Sir William Goodman's judgment in this action, delivered on the 2nd. June, 1904, direct-
-ed:-
(1). That the surplus, if any, should not go to the next
of kin, but should, according to the doctrine of cyprès, be applied to some other charity. This charity should of course be as like as possible to the original charity intended by the testators.
(2).
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREA BONAR LAW, M.P..
&C..