MR BEIT'S WILL
j CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL { BEQUESfS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ' LONDON - , July 21. The kte Mr Alfred Beit's will, which is dated April, 1905, creates a fund amounting to £1,200,000 for a railway and telegraph line between the Cape and Cairo. The estate -will be administered by Messrs Otto Beit, Julius Werner, and B. F. Bawkesley. Mr Beit ako bequeathed £200,000 for the establishment of a university at Johannesburg, the same amount for educational and other purposes in Rhodesia, £135,000 to the London University for a college of technology, £25,000 to the London University for [ an institute of medical science, £75,000 for : oilier educational purposes in South Africa, j £40,000 to the London Hospital, and i £20,000 each for charitable purposes in Lon- ! don and Hamburg. The testator has be- | qoeathed the residue of tiie estate to his brother, Mr Otto Beit.
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Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 6
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143MR BEIT'S WILL Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 6
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