MR CECIL RHODES'S BEQUESTS.

Evening Star, Issue 11725, 7 April 1902, Page 6

MR CECIL RHODES'S BEQUESTS.

EDUCATIONAL ENDOW-

NENTS.

EVERY COLONY REMEM-

BERED.

PROVISION FOR THE PREMIER OF UNITED SOUTH AFRICA.

THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY INCLUDED.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, April 5.

The late Mr Cecil Rhodes's will is dated July 1, 1899. There is a codicil dated January 18, 1902, relating to family and German bequests. The will deals with six millions sterling, including the sum of two millions bequeathed to education. Regarding his final resting-place, Mr Rhodes declares: "I admire the grandeur and loneliness of the Matoppo Hills, and I desire to be buried on the bill 1 called ' The View of the World."' He has bequeathed £4,000 annually to preserve the grave and transform the hill into a State burial ground of persons deserving well of the country after the federation of South Africa, £4,000 for the establishment of a Bulawayo Park, and £2,000 for irrigation, forestry, and an agricultural college in Mashonaland. His house at Grootschur he bequeaths as a residence for the Federal Premier, with £I,OOO per annum for the upkeep of horses, carriages, and servants. The grounds, meanwhile, are to be used as a public park. £IOO,OOO is left to Oriel College, Oxford. It includes £40,000 for the extension of the college building, and the remainder for the improvement of the income and comforts of fellowships and general repairs. The will emphasises the importance of the residential system, and confers the following endowments: Sixty colonial scholarships at Oxford University (twenty to be filled annually), of the yearly value of £3OO, tenable for three years by male student?—vi7-, three from Rhodesia, one each from the South African, Steflenbosch, and Rondcbosck dioceses and St. Andrew's and ,Grahanustown College Schools; one each from Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Westralia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ontario. Newfoundland, Quebec, Bermudas, and Jamaica; two similar scholarships (one to be filled yearly! to of the forty-five States and five Territories of the United States; fifteen similar scholarships, of the value of £250 per annum, for German students nominated by the Kaiser, in recognition of his promotion of the study of English and German. Mr Rhodes adds that a good understanding between England and Germany and America would secure the peace of the world, and educational relations are the strongest tie. The scholarships are free from any religious or racial test. Thirty points per cent, must be awarded for literary and scholastic attainments; twenty points for sports, the schoolmates of the successful candidates' to ballot; thirty points for qualities of manhood, truth, and courage, by a similar ballot; twenty points for qualities of moral force and character, based orj, the report of the head-master of the school. Total scholarships, 175.

NO LOAFERS TO INHERIT.

THE DIGNTTY OF WORK

IMMENSE SATISFACTION ABROAD,

LONDON. April 6. (Received April 7. a*, 9.20 a.m.) '

Mr Rhodes has entaiHl his Newmarket e«tnte to his brother*. wif'« the strincpnt condition that no one should inherit without havintr spent t c n years in an occupation or if he lonfe**.

The newspapers compare Mr Rhodes's will with that of Char's. They praise his consistent devotion to his idtwils of Imperial unity.

The American Press, in their eommenrs, believe that, the b o qnests -will form a perpetual link betwpen America and Rrifnin. Great satftfaction is expressed in official circles in Germany. OyESAR AUGUSTUS'S WTLL. The Ca>w referred to in the above cable Trill be Oftariiw Ofp-Tir Augustus, who<-e biographer (Suetonius) states that C-p.-'nr made a will a. year and four months before hi« death. It consisted of two skins of parchment, and after his desi-t-h was produced by the Vestal Virgins, in whose charge it was, along with three codicils, under seal. These were rend in the Senate. He had appointed as- his direct heirs Tiberins for two-third? of his estate, and Livia for the other third. The heirs in remainder were Prusns, Tihcriu*'s son, for onethird, and Germanicus with his three son? for the residue. In the third place, failing these, were his relations and friends. He left, in legacies to the Roman people forty millions nf sesterces (about £330,000), to the tribes (i.e., the lower claw**). three million live hnndred thousand sesterces, to the Praetorian troops a thousand each nia.n, to the, city cohorts 500 each, to the legions and soldiers 300 each, while several sums he ordered to be paid immediately after his death, having taken care that, the money should be ready in his exchequer. Tn one of the codicils be gave orders about his funeral, iu another- a summary of his acts, in the third he drew Tip a concise account of the state of the Empire, the number of troops enrolled, what money there was in the Treasury, revenue, arrears of taxes, and the names of those from whom the. account* might be obtained.