The Late Rev. W. Coienso.

Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1899, Page 2

The Late Rev. W. Coienso.

« The funeral of the late Rev. W. Coienso took place on Monday afternoon at Napier, and was attended by a very large number of settlers from all parts of the district. Messrs C. H. Edward?, E. W. Knowlas, and J. B. Fielder are the executors of the will of the late Mr Coienso. The deceased leaves £1000, to ba invested by the Councillors, and divided annually among3t 20 of the poorest families of Napier. The Bim of £500 is bequeathed to the annual purchase of prizes for the children attending the State schools in Napier ; £500 for the distressed seaman or other Ftrangei'3 desiring assistance ; and £500 is to be igves r.pd for the object of assisting discharged prisoners from Napier goal ; £200 to the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Society, which body also rpceives all his dri&d plants, specimens natural hist ny ppecimens, ! framed portrait of Sir J. Hooker and Allan Cunningham, an enlarged photograph of the donor, and a photo of an ancient bronze bell with Tamil incription, found in New Zealand, all these gifts to be held in trust by Mr H. Hill and Dr Spencer and Mr J. W. Carlile (the two later deceased since the signing of the '

■ »' »■'" ii in— mum 11 11^.*,^,^ I will) The bell referred to goea to the Colonial Museum, Wellington, which also receives a copy of th« New Testament in Maori, printed by Mr Cjlenso at Pdihia, Bay ol! Island?, in 1887; £100 is to be,, qnc-n bed to the Anglican Church Woodvillo, to be devoted to the com! pletion of the chancel in memory of Bishop Stuart ; hi 3 theological works to the Waiapu Diocesan Library, m well as a complete faibscriher'a »s>•* of the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," and the MBB, of the •• Census of the Maori Popa* lation of Hawke's Bay and Neigh. borhoooV 1 as taken at the request of the Bishop of New Zealand in 18«£ The Maori Dictionary manuscripts go to the Government, on certain terms, and the deceased's soientiflo books are included in his general estate.