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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 21 December 1925, Page 6

A Dunedin telegram states that the drawing of the Colossal Art Union, in which many thousands in all parts of the Dominion participated, has been postponed until Wednesday night. There was an exceptional heavy mail on Satuiday, and it was impossible to check and audit the returns in time. An Auckland telegram states that bequests under the will of the late MissIsa Outhwaite, who was born in Auckland S 3 years ago, include £l5OO for the .Mater Miseraccordia Hospital, £5OO for the benefit of discharged female prison ers, £3OO to the Jubilee Institute for the blind, and £5OO for the poor of the city of Bcsaucon, France, her mother ’& native city. Gifts of property include Hen Island, off the entrance to "Whan garei Harbour, to the King, with the trust that it be used as a bird sanctuary; the testatrix’s home with o\ - er an acre in Newmarket to the borough as a public park; and property of several acres adjacent to tlie Auckland Boy’s Grammar School for a Roman Catholic College site. The residue of the estat, after gifts to various Catholic organisations, goes to tTie Roman Catholic Bishop for purposes of