SIR E CASSEL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 7

SIR E CASSEL

AN INTERESTING CAREER. Sir Ernest Caasel, whose name has been before the public during the past few days in connection, with the; Turkish loaq, is one of the select band of multi-rajllionaires. who have reached the highest success by their own exertionsi Pis father w»8 a banker in Cologne, with so small a. business that hist son ■.™* &*& .*o get a post : <rf juniorclerit mi a v gr&im offifie m Liver.pqoPata. '. 7 .. | He soon went to London and by the time lie was twenty-five' his financial was acknowledged iby all who did with Mm. '. Hi, .b)^ye J been the straightening out 'of. the ffijaincas «f '&rgefit|ha,'"' the' "Ananciiig of Mexacan iailwajs and State, loans; the irtiatidn of Viewers-Maxim' with' the Bar(lro\£ shipbuilding works, amd the financing of the Sweetish' nUiwayli. : ":He\';tisb''heip,ed'-t6 : ' ; maJtV the Central Loridbn''tube irailway a reality, and /came to Chiha*s 'rescue with a loan after de'fikt bi Japan f in 1894. v i , BSe 1 'most 1 ' tfamdW' Wi- was, perhaps, the Assouan .dhm k 1898, «nd: it* was' ! Egyp't' thsut ; rewards hiron most .hamdsp(me|y for his labors. * Sir -iyeßt , '-^^erß , ;''' ! febjaritable gifts have' been. enormous.'' ! ■He placed at ; Kirig 4, Edward's disposal £mfiHO- in im, -land' the- result the WMisumptioh sanatorium : - at hurst, He gave' -£40,000 for th*' investigation of 'eye dise&s'es" tind Wis gifts to Ma&oji iftedsy the unemployed* King Hospital Fund, the Radium ■ous charities amount • to' many' thousands'. ,: "' ; .;' ■'; '••"' «:i ■.-■• <■:'?<: : His only daughter is the wife of Mr. Wilfrid Ashley, MiP. ; I '" i One of fas recreations; is lacing. He won the Two Thousand Guineas in 1901,' • ■:'*. .-<■ ■.•■■■• ■■ ■:■•