A LADY’S GENEROSITY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3342, 3 April 1918, Page 40

A LADY’S GENEROSITY.

NELSON, March 26. At a meeting of the Diocesan .Standing Committee to-day Bishop Sadlier announced i large benefaction to the Anglican Church under the will of the late Miss Frances Marsden. After providing for various personal bequests, the testatrix devises the sums of £IOOO for the erection of the principal spire of the new cathedral, £SOOO to the clergy pension fund, £SOOO to the home mission fund, and certain other sums to be assigned to church purposes in the absolute discretion of the bishop. Special sums are bequeathed for the erection of a church house for the diocese and the rebuilding of Bishopdalo, the Bishop’s residency. Testatrix’s house in Brougham street is devised for the benefit of the diocese. At present values the bequests to the diocese will now, apd 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 hie disposal, the bishop has offered £IO,OOO to the Cathedral Erection Board conditional upon £50,000 being contributed in the diocese within five years.