MILLIONAIRES OF 1900.

Otago Witness, Issue 2454, 27 March 1901, Page 69

MILLIONAIRES OF 1900.

TWENTY MILLIONS LEFT BY ONLY EIGHT PERSONS. Nearly twenty million'- of pouncU rppre^enU the total sum left by the eight millionaires who died in England dm ing the past year; t*nd upon which death duties have been paid, 1 The richest of these millionaires was .Mr George Smith, v;ho died at the age of 91, I worth about fiie millions sterling. Here is the hs'-: — Mrs James Craig, 72, of Dunvijle and Co , ' distillers (A.pnl 20). -£i,005,078 gros-:, £1,032,445 i:et. ■ Baron Adolphe Charles de Eoi.hschild,^77, of Paris, banker (February 7). £2,357,979, m the United Kingdom. Mr William Orme Foster. S3, of Apley Parks Sa'cp, ironmaster (September 29). £2,587,631 gross. Mr John Gretton, GG, of Bsss, Eatchff, and Gretton (October 2). £2,853,640 gross, £2,71^013 jiet. Mr Thomas Henry Ismay, 62, of Isniay, Imrie, and Co., Liverpool, shipowners (November, 23) £1,297,881 gross, £1,020 955 not. Mr George Smith, 91, of Elgin, N. 8., and of Chicago and New Yo*k (October 7). About £5,030,000 net. Mr Samuel Gcoige Smith, 78, of Lombard street, banker (July 6). £1,553,965 net. Sir Keary Tate, 80. of London and Liverpool, sugar refiner (December 5). £1,263,565 gross, £1,228,097 net. The principal charitable bequests of tha past year amount to £1,532,650, of which £300,000 conies ironx the estate of the lata PiofcGsor D. E. Hughes, F.R.S., and is left in trust for the MiddVsex, London, King's College, aud Charing Crosa Hospitals. — Daily 2\'ev> s. HOW THE BOTTLE WAS SU ASHED. A bad rlace to carry a bottle, and almost tare to end in disaster And =0 it proved in the case of Mrs Jone-*3 little giil You see, her mother had F.nt the iliiM to tho phop of Mr Ayres, the chemist, for a bottle of medicine, and when he had given it to her she put it inside of her closed umbrella to carry it home. On her way back it began to rain: and tho child thoughtlessly raised the umbrella? Half tbc contents cf the bottle was saved, und the mother wa-3 obliged to make the best of it. Writing under date of November 27th, 1E99. the lady says:- — "'About four years ago come Christmas I became bad with what I cau only describe as a nasty, low, wealc feeling. I was po weak that when I wanted to move from one place to another in the room I had to go hand over hand around the tables and chairs. '" Thi3 was so aggravating, and I really was so feeble, that I often felt like throwing myFelf clown, only I knew I couldn't get up again. At times I would have such dreadful jia.ns across my chest that I was afraid I Fhould 6mother ; and the sickening, coppery tasto in my mouth of mornings was hard to bear. ''For the life of me I could not say what; was the matter or what was the caudc of all thi=. I had been to the lodge doctor regularly for about six months, and he, told mo I v, as a puzzle to him, and that he didn't know what ailed me. " All he could say was that if I did not give up lifting water from the well, cuttirg wood, milking, and other work I had to do, I would not bo long for this world. This was not a, \ery cheering -\iew for him to take, but / have no doubt thai ho wa=! sincere in it, and the state I was in seemed to bear him out h\ it. But hib medicine had no effect on me at nil. " One day T happened to read about Mother Sie^el's Syiuo. and t-nv.io r-a es in the book uere as much like unno as one egg is like ar>ot'ier in i\ Kiok- I." (Here Mrs Jnnt'? iclls how she tidied up ono of the children, and >pnt her to the chemist's for a bottle of the Syrup. which incident, v'tli !'-■ attendant ca!:<hity, has alread3 r been reIntod ) " I coinntoncrd at onre.'" continues our coi respondent, "on \,!iat mednine there v,;i>< If ft in tl-e botiL\ and u:fd it up. Tl.ea I c fin for another, which cam: safe to band. i>y tl>e time T lin.'! finished Ihi* 011s I was e\er so much better, but I kept right along vuih the medicine until I j>ot perfectly well ; which I did, and ha\e not had any illness suite. "I am t-L-ldoi.i without a bottle of Mciher ftoigd's Syrup m t! c lio ibfi, and it i-, part of my comir.cn talk t.i toll people v>hai it Ims done for me, and wl-,°,f lam si. re it v ill d'> for am body v. ho suffer-* from the complaints we are all liable <o have " —^^rs Tabitha, Jane Jones, (iiaham ftreet, Aubuin. N S W. l\eferri'.iv> to the htt'o gill's bad luck on her fir~t \ isit to the chemist, Mrs .Tone-, add* t! a! it in a comfori to rpflcrt tha f a. k>lt bottV of Seiprel's Svi\ip 11 more good Uian a fu'l one of anything ol c. Lctler^ of 11 iti. it libation ha\e been i-uii^d to Annie Perm»'.cic\ Pin" Hi 1, and I'etLiThomson, Waitahuu.i GulH*. VWuop Juhu*, <n\ beir.tr n-.ked l>y a rr>pr°of the Tnnaiu Pon a few day» ago [ vi hy the church v/a- importing its cleiatymen j from Knqland malea-l of obtaining local men, I faid that the thiOC prime reason- why men 1 heie ore rebic'ant to outer ih^> Aiinutiy are. that the canon law lequn-P;, that a man shall Le 23 year^ of age before he r.ai lie ordained a deacon. A person \\lw> gets hi-, d-'greo I hpie often gets it before that age. and generally wi-hes to be doing- fometlniig. Moiej oi'er, from a lempoial point ol \ iew, the ' outlook of a pa i! ->h pne-t is not promising 111 a \olimlary church like that of Xew Zealand, i". which the pne=t i- u( ce^arily dependent. At Home ho rrceue? the tiihcs of I lie parish, and 1* alronetliP' 1 •ndcpcndi'nt of Ihe paxishioi.pi- To 1 hurch 'm-~ not (!ia preeiig? here that i ( ha- ai Home Wor-c than that, there? i^ l.ot tho same «pint ot devoutnesa among the jieoiile. Tl c color.ie- am |9aas ng tlirough a period of inHdelnv. whu-h \" ill eciruinly i.iore.i^o until rohufion ui^<~-- it^ ];roT>er pl.ite 111 the public K\en good cliuichnien ore known to di^u.tde then* sons from entering the niiaistrj.