BEQUESTS TO NELSON' DIOCESE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 March 1918, Page 6

BEQUESTS TO NELSON' DIOCESE.

NELSON, March 26. At a meeting of the Diocesan Standing Committee to-day. Bishop Sadiier announced large benefactions to the Anglican Church nnder the v ill of the late Miss Frances Marsden.. .After pro. viding for various personal bequests, the .testator devises sums of £10,000 for the erection of the principal spire of the, new cathedral, £5000 to the clergy pension funds, £5000 to the home mission, fund, and certain sums to be assigned to church purposes at the absolute discretion of the bishop. Special sums are bequeathed for the erection of a church house for the diocese and the rebuilding of .''Bishopsdale," the bishop's residence. The testatrix's house in Brougham street .is devised jjpr the benefit of the diocese styii present values the bequest to the diocese' will now, and in the immediate future, amount to about £50,000, and ultimately the diocese will benefit, to a.larger extent. Out ■of the funds placed at his disposal the bishop has offered £10,000 to the Cathedral Erection Board, conditional upon £30,000 being contributed in the, diocese within five years. :