A SOUTH AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11686, 23 July 1906, Page 3

A SOUTH AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE.

HIS BEQUESTS,

THE CAPE-CAIRO RAILWAY

Received July 22, 4.33 p.m

London, July 21

Sir Alfred Beit's will, dated April 1903, creates a fund of one million two hundred thousand pounds for railway and telegraph communication bstween the Cape and Cairo, to be administered by Otto Beit, Julius Jerner, and B. F. R. Hawkesley. He also bequeaths two hundred thousand pounds for the estalishmeat of a university at Johannesburg, and the same amount for educational and other purposes in Rhodesia, one hundred and thirtyfive thousand pounds to the London University Gollesre of Technology, twenty-five thousand pounds to the London University Institute of Medical Science, seventy-five thousand pounds to other educational purposes in South Africa, forty thousand pounds to the London Hospital, and twenty thousand pounds each for Charitable purposes in London and Hamburg. The testator bequeaths the residue of his estate to his brotaer Otto.