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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 201, 31 August 1901, Page 4

The most cordially-detested, universallyfeared, and admired Cecil Bhodes is to die. The great man’s body is palsied, and his brain paralysed. His enormous wealth, his mighh influence, his myriad friends cannot hold him back from the dark portals. It is chronicled of the man who swayed the destinies of South Africa that he went tc that country immediately after leaving Oxford, for his health, which was weak. This is incorrect. Bhodes went to Australia previous to his settlement in Cape Colony. He prospected, droved, carried bluer, and mined coal in New South Wales, A'ictoria, and South Australia, building up in some degree the health that had always been weak. Returning to Sydney in an almost penniless condition, the future king of Africa became stranded in that city of derelicts. A compassionate merchant set him on his feet, for which Bhodes used his intuitive genius to vastly increase bis benefactor’s wealth by a smart stroke of business. From money earned in Sydney Rhodes built the fortune which he is about to relinquish,