WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 9

WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH

LAEGE BEQUESTS. Mr. Henry Swaffield, SevVnonks (England), a prominent Wesk'yan Methodist, left estate of the gross value of .£210,757 7s. 10d. He left hohnags of the value of ii)OUO in tho Ottoman Railway to hits trustoes until 1951 to divide the income, and after that dato (ho capital equity J , between the nine following charities:— (1) Wcs'icyan Jlethodist Missionary Society for tlie Support and Spread of the Uo?pel in Foreign Lands. (i) The Wesleyan Home Jlissionary li'und for the Support and Spread of the Gospel in Great Britain and Ireland. (:i) Tho London Wcslcyan Methodist Mission. . (4) Tho AVorn-out Ministers and Minister*, Widows' Auxiliary Fund. (5) The Wesleyan Chapel, Scvenoaks. (I!) Tho Circuit Stewards of tho Wcslevan Methodist Body at Sevenoaks, '(7) The Ketreat at Hevenoaks. (S The C'oriiwcll Hall, Sevenoaks. CI) Tlie AVesleyan Theological Institute. The ultimate remainder of his property he left equally between , The Benevolent or Strangers' Irteml The* London Wesleyan Methodist Mis- ' It' is not possible to stale accurately the amount which will ultiwately become available for charitable purposes, but it may possibly amount to .t1.i0.000. less deductions for duly. The property will eventually pay iu duties about £15,000. " Mr? Elizabeth Farmer-Atkinson, of AYoodcotc Place, Ensom, left ostato of the gross value of /SG.T.VJ !).<. 1(1., with net personally £75,780 Us. 11(1. She left £250 to her companion. Jlabol Mary Stanwell, and an annuity ol £250 payable on (he death of tho survivor, of her (t'ue testatrix's) husband or herself. ■ Subject to her husband's interest and on his death, she. left the following sums: .£SOOO to the British and Foreign Bible. Society. , ~. '' .£2OOO to the AVonicn's Auxiliary \\esIcvan Methodist Missionary Society. ".CSOO to tlie Leys School at Cambridge. The remainder to tho President, of tho Wiwlpyan Methodist Conference.Tlic'ro ore other charitablo bequests, and she left tho residue of her estate nnon trust to accumulate the jaino ior 21 years or during the life of her husband, and then to pay £201)0 to the minister of tho \\ anrago Circuit for (ho support of the Childrev Wesloyan Chapel ond Srliool, and thi- i,ltiiuote residue to tlie Women s Auxiliary of tlia AVcslcyan Methodist Missionary ' It is not possible to cttimato nccurntely Hie amount ultimately nvailable'lor charitable u--e=. but it would appear to amount to about £50,000.

Touching the belief of the Nationalist members of Hie House of Commons that Hie number "13" is unlucky !o them and their political interests, attention is called to the fact that the futures of (he current vpar 1012, when added together, make thirteen. Moreover, (hero are thirteen wonts in th" passage which pivumpM Hio production of the Home Rule Bill in (lie Kiliß's Speech-. "A measure for the better government of Ireland will bo submitted to you." Finally, there are thirteen letters in the spelling of the Parliament Act. At an inquest at 'Winchester on a twelve-year-old hoy named Sidney .Tames Coombi's, who died in the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Dr. llpthwt, the house surgeon at the hospital, staled that he liad carried out a post-mortem examination and found that there worn two stomachs, ono normal,, the other beim; smaller. The boy was very thin. Death was duo to hemorrhage of the brain, and a verdict was returned accordingly.