Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-11-11 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.  Thq Scottth clnflrmation, under seal of °Moe ef the Stieriff of the county of Argyll at Inverary, of the trust disposition and settlement of Sir William Mackinnon, Bart., of Loup and Ballinakill, Argyllshire, and of Strathaird in the Isle of 5t:3,13, who died at the Burlington Hotel, London, on June 22nd, has been resealed in London, the Nal ue of the personal estate in England and Soot Lind amounting to over £560,000. The will of Mr. John Henry Daniell, C. 8., late of Fairchildes. near Wailin;zham, Surrey, and of Eaton-square, who died on May 20th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amountiag to upwards of £125,000. The Scotch confirmation, unCer seal of the Cornmissariot of the county of Edinhurgh, of the trust disposition and settlement of Mr. George Freer, late of Melville-street, Edinburgh, who died at Fellside' Moffat, Dutntries, on August 3rd, has been resealed in London, the value of the personal estate in England and Scotland amounting to upwards of £51,000.  The will of Mr. James Toovey, formerly cf Piccadilly, and late of Manresa, Hendon, who died on September 7th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £26,000. The will, with two codicils, of Mr. Alexander Tod, late of NValmer, Kent, who died en July Bth, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £26,000. The will cf the Hon. Leopold William Henry Fox-Pcwys, late of Queensberry-place, Kensington, who died on July 18th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £13,000. The testator bequeaths £2O each to the University College Hospital, f,r the cancer ward, and the 'Warrington Infirmary. The will of Colonel Francis Coningsby Harman Claris., retired R. A., late of Colombo, Ceylon, and Erunswick-place, Brighton, who died on August 27th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to £5,079. 'The will of Major-General Charles CornwalliS Johnston, formerly RE., late of Gloucester. terrace, Hyde Park, who died en August 26th al Eastbourne, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £12,000.  The will of Dame Constance Marianne McMahon, late of Queen's gate, who died on September 19i11, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £11,0e9. The will of Mr. Hugh S..yin our Trementeere, C. 8., late of Thurlow-square, who died on September 16th, at Farnborough, has been proved, the value cf the personal estate amounting to £11,085. The will of Mr. Thomas Daniel, late of the Reform Club, Pall Mall, and Lansdowne-crescent, Kensington Park, who died on June 26th at Magnolia, Massachusetts, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to £3,729.  The will of Henry Denman Macaulay, retired lieutenant R.N., nephew ef the late Lord Macaulay. late of St. Cleorge's-square, who died on June 19th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to £2,717. —lllustrated Londe Nws.  -sne sore an;.: t,tnniey Line, on the michand Hallway, constructed at a cost of nearly a million sterling, was opened on Monday for goods traffic. It is 20 miles long, and has the sccond longest tunnel in the kingdom. At Birmingham Quarter Sessions, on Saturday, three persons named Stevens,father and sons, were, after a three days' trial, sentenced to five years' penal servitude for long firm frauds of a very extensive character.  The murder case in which Ashworth Read, a Burnley manufacturer, is charged,with his domestic servant, with the murder of their infant, will be removed from Manchester to Liverpool Assizes. The date of the trial is to be fixed later.  Miss Susanna Beever, of Coniston, one of the most intimate of Mr. Ruskin's small circle of friends there, has just died. She was 87, and had spent nearly all her life at Coniston in works of friendliness and charity among the Dalesfolk.  Of 1,473 ministers now belonging to the Baptist denomination 29 have been in the ministry from 53 to 63 years' 91 from 43 to 52, 155 from 32 to 42, 341 from 23 to 32, and 393 from 13 to 22; 412 entered the ministry during the last 10 years,and 17 durine the last three years.