CARNEGIE’S WEALTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 113, 22 May 1901, Page 3

CARNEGIE’S WEALTH.

BIG GIFT FOB BENEFIT OF SCOTCH STUDENTS, By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, May 21. Mr Carnegie has given two millions to provide for free education at Scottish Universities, including the payment of medical fees. The gift is limited to Scottish students, male and female. English and colonial students do not participate. Paris, April 6. Andrew Carnegie, whose endowments are the subject of marvelling discussion in Europe, finally has boon discovered in the French fishing village Antibes, where ho was so besieged by delegates from all sorts of charities, schools and societies, who came not only from France, but from England and every country in Europe, that ho seriously contemplates an early escape to the seclusion of his Scotch castle. Mr Carnegie said to a correspondent, with almost comical despair : “ I have given orders that I will not recoivo any of these people at my house, but they waylay mo in the streets and country lanes. The other day, when I was fishing four miles out, another craft sailed alongside ours and an enterprising Catholic missionary boarded our boat in order to explain all about the merits of some 1 fallcn-womon-reclaiming ’ scheme. “ These people make this delightful spot hateful to me. When some oily fellow pesters me I generally succeed in getting rid of him in short order, but most of the charitable concerns cunningly send women, and then what can a man do ? ”