A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8853, 2 July 1907, Page 1

A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT.

The London Standard published the text cf an extraordinary first will made by Mr Cecil Rhodes, and recently referred to by Lord Grey in hiu speech at New York. The will is dated September, 1877, when Mr Bhodes was only twenty-three-years old, and was, m the words of Lord Grey, “ trekking over the boundless plateaus of South Africa and sleeping under the stars.” In this will Mr Bhodes bequeathed everything ho had to trustees, who were instructed to apply his estate towards the establishment of the following objects :

The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands •wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor, and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire continent cf Africa, the Holy Land, the valley of the Euphrates, the islands oi Cyprus and Cendia, the whole of South America, the islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery cf the United States of America as an integral part of the Bri'ifn Empire, the inauguration of a system of colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjoined members of the Empire, and, finally, the foundation of eo great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote the bast interests of humanity.