A GREEK PATRIOT.

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1911, Page 8

A GREEK PATRIOT.

: When one conttirasts Greei-e-a'B it was once and 'Greece As it it to-diy itherc is something very pathetic n •the •■bequefcts "mad to -his nativ country by Mr Marino^ Cangialgnos merchant, -who died in England recenttdy, ■and left ,oyer half a million. Few wills of late .years have conitaned such interesting-, bequests.. Mr • Cargialegpo, who was a native of Oophalonia, but a naturalised. British subject, left! .£IO,OOO for 'barracks for the Greek Army, and for the improvement of the Greek Nawy, the money to be used' in, th discretion of ttihe King of Greece. The sum of £40,000 is left for the insfeitution at Athens of a school on Itihe -lines -of Btom and Harrow, the testator "sharing: in the desire expressed to me by his Majesty King George that education -im Greece should be ronadened more perfect by the stablishmetnt of a public or second ary school upon the model of the EiiigHsh public schools, wherci boys will receive a regular course of- teach ing, as well as of good breading;" The many oitiheir legaies to his native country include £80,000 for a hospital in Athens, £40,000 for a school for craftsmen-, mr Cephalpnia, and £25, 000 to 'build a model ■ prison in Greece .the .testaltlor expfessimg the hope that it will ' ibe conducted on Emg-lish lines, and £15,000 to the Royal Thealtire, Atth-dns. The residue of the property, whi-cr . will apparently amount to not 'less than £40,000 he left 'to itihe- Crown Prince of Greece for use in his discretion : for the improvement and embellishment of the city of Athmis, or Itihe cstaiblishment of- any institution fox the promotion of scientfic literaryi- or moral knowledge, or for (the .advaicement of the dirts and trades. He concludod his will by sayisng-:— "It is' not the desire for posthumous fame that leads' me to mime many- of the legacies after ■my own name, fut as a stimulus to others amd -the de-sire and -ardent wish thaltl other of my count-n'mein in Greece and .abroad -will follow my example -and foement-'by similar bequests our beloved country- an future timies." Though Greece ■ has fallen very far from her high state, it can still produoa .larg-e'-miaidled 1 (pa(tri|ots.