GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 307, 23 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

PHILANTHROPIST'S PECULIAR BEQUEST. Received 22, 11.58 p.m. London, December 22. Sims, a philanthropist, residing at Cheltenham, who greatly befriended the loeap Baptist Church, bequeathed to each of its nine deacons happening to attend his funed the sum of X IOO. None attended. The terms of the will were disclosed yesterday. , A BISHOPRIC APPOINTMENT. I Received 22, U.oB p.m. London, December 22. Dr. 11. Luk« Paget, Bishop of Ipswich, lias been appointed Bishop of Stepney. | NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. ] Received 22, 0.08 p.m. ' London, Decernlx i -. The National Bank of New Zealand i has declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent. : j^^jj'

ouj'fUAity. London, December 12. I .Sir I'. A. lluntz, Bart., Conservative Member of the House of Commons for J'amworlh Division of Warwickshire, is dead. |>ir P. A. Munlz has sat in Parliament since, 1884. lie was (it) years of age. Mimlz's Meliil Compiinv took its mim« from hhn, and !„• was its deputy chairman and managing director, lie was known to pasfornlists as a breeder nf Shire horses and Shropshire Down sheep.] | TIIK TEKIiITOIUAL ARMY. London, December 12. Ihe Duke nf Fife, President of the territorial Forces' Association, nm ] Lord Ksher, the. ,-linirnian. have pnbished an urgent appeal for 27,17s men to complete the London quota of the territorial Army,

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