HBH 1892 July 11 2 GOODE Aus Probate Account-Before the New South Wales Probate Court Josiah GOODE died at Richmond, Victoria on December 16 1880 leaving property and effects to the value of about £20,000. By a will dated November 1879, he bequeathed most of his property to a woman who was known as Madame ROLAND. Josiah GOODE was a married man, and had a wife living, and in august 1877, he made a will in favour of his wife, but immediately afterwards left his wife and went away from Dubbo, where he had been farming, with Madame ROLAND, an actress. For some years he lived at Richmond, Victoria, where it was here that he died in 1880, after having made a will in November, 1879, in favour of Madame ROLAND. The executrix applied to the court for probate, and though the will was contested by the testator's wife, probate was granted. Two days after Madame Roland had given evidence in the case of the Probate Court in Sydney, she died. In February last a commercial traveller named Maurice BARNETT, residing in MELBOURNE, purchased a bundle of "Young Ladies Journals" from a second hand bookstall in the Eastern Market, Melbourne. The journals were tied up in a bundle and formed a complete volume for 1879. BARNETT took the books home, and a few days afterwards commenced to read them. On opening the July number he came across a parchment document, and on examining it, found that it was a will created by Josiah GOODE in 1880 and signed by two attesting witnesses. BARNETT advertised the discovery, and was communicated with by a solicitor of SYDNEY, to whom he forwarded the document, which turned out to be a will made in April 1880, by GOODE. The widow of Josiah GOODE at once commenced proceedings to revoke the former will, and these were commenced before Mr Justice MANNING last will.