GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
BEQUESTS TO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ashburton, Last Night. The late David Wilson, who died on Xmas Eve at the advanced age of 85, and who was a very old colonist, having arrived in the Dominion in the barque Victory in 1857 and settled in Ashburton district 38 years ago, left an estate which it M •exptytedj will Ibe sworn at just under £BO,OOO. The religious and charitable bequests total £3300, and of this all but £2OO is left to the funds and institutions in connection with the Presbyterian Church of >fc\v Zealand. The sum of £3IOO is divided amongst fourteen objects, the biggest amounts being .£4OO eacli to the aged and infirm ministers' fund and to assisting weak congregations, also £350 each to the Knox College endowment fund and church extension for new work and assisting present home mission stations, while £250 is left towards scholarships for Divinity students, and £2OO each towards foreign missions and widows' and orphans' fund.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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164GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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