£120,000 FOR CHARITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 5 September 1911, Page 8

£120,000 FOR CHARITY.

BEQUESTS TO ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS. Mr. Jaaios John Frederick Stevens, of Holm hurst, Erith Road, Bejvederc, Kent, chairman of tlio West Kei\l Lias Company, left or late ol the gross, value of £\b\>J) l 2i> 3s. 3d., of which the not jiersoiialtj- has been sworn at .£ISL',T:)3 life. 10d. He bequeathed. ot3_10,0;iO to tho Roman' Catholic Bishop of Squthwark towards the endowment ol' St. George's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Southwark. His llolinhurst estate at Bclvcdcro to the Bishop for charitable purposes in his discretion, with the request that the iiishop will include one or moro of the following: purposes in tho usn to which ho may decide to nut tho said estate, viz., a homo for aged or infirm Roman Catholic priests; a convalescent homo for (ho sick poor cf the dioceso of Southwark; « honva for the agctl poor of (ho diocese of Southwark, and a school or oolloj-o for tho training of Honan Catholic priests or for. training teachers. .£IOOO to tho Littlo Sisters of tho Poor at Kemiington. .CCOOO and the proiwils of his life policies to Miss Lydia Tucker, of 1 Grand Avcniu, Loadenhall MaVliot, E.C. .MOO to Jessie Canicion, if still in his service. .£IOOO and a life annuity of JJSO to his housekeeper, Hannah Dcnovan. Tho liltimalc residue of his properly, which it appears will amount to over .£IOO,OOO, he left to the Bishop of Southwark for his absolute uso.