ALFRED BEIT'S WILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8163, 23 July 1906, Page 2

ALFRED BEIT'S WILL.

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huge bequests. Roceivei 21, 4.28 p.m. / London, July 21. Sic Alfred Beit's will, dated April 1 905, creates a fund of one million wo hundred thousand for a railway telegraph betweon the Cape and Cairo, ■idininislered by Otto Suit, Juhui Werner and B. F. IWt e »Jey. He dso bequeaths two hundred thousand for the establishment of a University it Johannesburg, the same amount for educational -and other purposes m lihodesia, one hundred and thirty.flye thousand tu the London University College o £ Teohnology, twenty* ave thousand to the London University Institute of Medical Soience, seventy.five theusand to other oduoational purpooen in South Afrioa, forty thousand to the London Hospital and twenty thousand eaoh to charitable purposes in London and Hamburg. The testator bequeath# the residue of Lis estate to his brother Otto.