CECIL RHODES’S WILL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4629, 7 April 1902, Page 5

CECIL RHODES’S WILL.

S!X MILLIONS INVOLVED. ENORMOUS BEQUESTS TO EDUCATION. (Received April G, 5.13 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Mr Rhodes’s will, dated July*lst, 1899, with codicils dated January 18th, 1902 (the latter relating to family and German bequests) deals with six millions sterling, including two millions bequeathed to education. Regarding his final resting-place, the testator declares, “ I admire the grandeur and loneliness of the Matoppo Hills, and dosiro to be buried on the hill I called ‘ View of tho World.’ ” Ho bequeathed £4OOO annually to preserve tho grave and transform tho bill into a State burial ground of persons deserving well of their country after the federation of South Africa, and to establish a Buluwayo Park. Two thousand annually is bequeathed for an Irrigation, Forestry and Agricultural College in Maslymaland. Groote Schuur, Mr Rhodes’s house at Rondebosch, near Capetown, is loft as a residence for the Premier of Federated South Africa, with £IOOO per annum for upkeep of horses, carriages and servants. Tho grounds are in the meantime to be used as a public park. Deceased further leaves £IOO,OOO to Oriel College, Oxford. This includes £40,000 for the extension of tho college buildings, tho remainder being for the improvement of the income and comfort of Fellowships and general repairs. Tho ‘deceased emphasises tho importance of the residential system, and confers the following endowments for colonial scholarships at Oxford: — Twenty to bo filled annually i f the yearly value of £3OO, tenable for three years by male, students—three from Rhodesia; one each from tho South African, Stellenbosch, Diocesan, St. Andrew’s and Grahamstown College Schools; ono each from Natal, Now South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, West Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ontario, Newfoundland, Quebec, tho Bermudas, and Jamaica. Two similar scholarships, one to be filled yearly, to each of the forty-five States and five territories of the United States of America. Fifteen similar scholarships of £250 per annum, for German students nominated by the Kaiser in recognition of tho promotion of tho study of English in Germany. Tho will, in referring to the American and German bequests, says:—“A good understanding between England, Germany and America would secure the peace of tho world. Educational relations form the strongest tie.” The scholarships are free from any religious or racial test. It is provided that in allotting the scholarships tho bases must bo 30 points per cent, for literary and scholastic attainments and 20 per cent, for sports. The schoolmates of the successful candidates are to ballot up to 30 points for qualities of manhood, truth and courage. A similar ballot is to be made up to 20 points for qualities of moral force of character, based upon the report of the headmaster of the school. Tho total number of scholarships is 175. The number of scholarships mentioned in the above message will, on the terms mentioned, involve an annual expenditure at the end of three years of £115,350.