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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10960, 1 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

"Take no nioney m thy purse" — 233 parsons died m the United Kingdom m 1 1906, whose aggregate estates panned < ut 'for £5,637,901, or an average of £24,197 each. One, the Rev. Sir Richard Fit/.herbert, rector of Worsop, left £538,543. An inquest was held at Liverpool on a stonemason named John Thomas Eggl.ston. The evidence show that on Sunday j he laughed very heartily : at the accom-J {> lishments of a ventriloquist. He sudden- j y collapsed m his chair inf the midst of ] his merriment, and died, from heart failj ure. It was stated that E^gleston had squandered a large srirri inherited-front an uncle, arid that a week ago he scattered' five-pound notes at the hotel where he was staying. J