The Late Mr Rhodes.

Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1902, Page 2

The Late Mr Rhodes.

It is believed that the late Mr Cecil Rhodes left the Earl of Rosebery, Earl Grey, Lord Milner, Mr Beit, Dr Jameson and Messrs L. Mitchell and Hawksley as trustees of the remainder of his fortune, which is estimated at between three and four millions sterling. The trustees are understood _to have been given unfettered diseretion to expend it in the advancement of the federation of the nations of the Anglo-Saxon race. Mr Rhodes’s funeral train was draped in mourning, the latter part of it being arranged as a chapel and lighted with wax candles. The coffin was covered with the Union Jack. A pilot engine proceeded the armoured train which escorted the main train. Extraordinary display of the popular love and respect felt for the deceased was made all along the railway line. Hundreds of persons travelled long distances to witness the funeral ceremony. All the posts and blockhouses furnished guards of honour, and presented arms as the train passed. All business was suspended in Rhodesian towns, and the buildings were drapedAn elegy written by Mr Rudyard Kipling, eulogising Mr Rhodes’s greatness of soul, was read at the grave.