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Sir William ltauiMv told • good Htor.v at the annual dinnor or the Ulnagow and Lanarkshire Awocfalion on February 18. Th<j otoer day he heard a gentleman who «*•» dying appointed three executor* to bin "ill. One of the*, was aaEagHahmun, the second an Irishman, ««> the third n Scut. To each he left a siifastaiitiul legacy, bill only on Condition th.it ouch of them put £5 in his coffin. <)u the day of the funeral the Englishman oanie up and deposited a £3 note in tho coffin, the Irishman put in five sovereign*. Then, came the Scottish executor's turn. tie advanced gravely to Um coffin sldo, wrote with groat deliberation a cheque for £ls, laid It on the dead man'* hand, and took out tho change 1 Tho Archbiahbp of. Malta ) attended In atato i ed the opening of tfce tramway in the Maud,,, ii*f;

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2

Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2

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