GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A VALUABLE! BEQUEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, The trustees of the estate of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Knox met 10-dav and decided that the residue of the estate, estimated at £25,000, should he utilised in the building and endowment of a home for incurables, which wias the principal object of charily under the will, and toward which Mrs. Knox specially bequeathed :C2O\O(HI. 'l'll,- sum of C45.1H10 will therefore now be available from the Knox bequests for the purpos? in view.

RAILWAY SUI'IiI!AX\i:ATIOX. Wellington Last Night. The executive of the Ainalgaina.t-id Society of Itaihvay Servants has decided In pay .Claim to the fiovernment liailwiiy Superannuation Fund, so that 74 railway employees whose length of continuous service was broken through the strike of LSilll, will be allowvd io count their full service for superannuation. -V recent, ballot of tire Society's members showed a very substantial opinion in favor of the payment, and the monev will be paid to the fund immediately/ as the increased superannuation allowances to strikers who have already left the service will operate as from the next monthly payment after receipt of the '£,1500.

NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Duncdin, Last Night. The directors of the National Insurance Company in their report for the year ending 30th September, recommend the usual dividend, which will absorb £7500. They have added £13,000 to Hie. reserve fund and carry forward £29,920.

MANAWATU SHOW. Palmcrston N., Last Night. The Manawatu Show concluded to-day in line weather and with a large attendance. Some fine jumping was witnessed among the 33 competitors in the tin. al hurdles. The loaping was won by H. ('. Hartley's Vendetta. . The taking amounted to £IOOO, or C 247 less than last year owing (o the bad weather.