The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-21
BETS MILLIONS GO 10 WORTHY CAUSES
PEOPLE OF HAMBURG GET HIS ESTATE THERE BY
 HIS WILL.

South African NIiIlionaire's Requests
 Varied S1,OOOOOO Being Given to JO-
 hannesburs University; the Same to Educational or Charitable Purposes
 in Rhodesfa; Sl25,OOO to Rhodes Uni-
 versity; S7,OOO for pr. Jameson and
 S6,OOO,0OO is Left His Partners for Im-
 provements in SoSth Africa.
 London, July 2O.-It was announced to-day that the will of Alfred Belt, the South African millionaire, who died here July IS, leaves the property known at Borstler's Jager, near Hamburg, to the city of Hamburg, to be held for the people. If this is not practicable the city is authorized to realize on the property twenty years after MT. Belts death, and apply the proceeds to charitable purposes of the state of Hamburg, the maintenance of the property to be defrayed by the rev. enue from the hotel on the property. The proceeds of the sale of the surplus timber is to be devoted to charitable or educational purposes.
 The picture, by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Lady Cockburn and Her Children, is left to the British National gallery, and Reynolds picture of Mistress Boone and Her Daughter" and other art treasures are left to Berlin and Hamburg, and to the College of Tech nology connected with the London uni versity the sum of $25O,0OO and 1000 $125O shares in the De Beers company are bequeathed.
 The sum of $1,OO0,0O0 Is left to the University of Johannesburg, to build and equip buildings on the land pre- viously given by him; $1,OOO,OOO is be- queathed for educational CT charitable purposes in Rhodesia and other terri tories within the field of the British South Africa company; $125,OOO to the research fund of the London university; $125 1000 to the Rhodes university, Gra- hamstown, Cape Colony; $50,O00 to the Rhodes Memorial fund at Cape Town; $50 ,0O0 to the Union Jack club of Lon don.
 One hundred thousand dollars is left to the deceaseds s firm in South Afri- ca for educational or charitable pur- poses in the Transvaal; $75,000 for the same purpose to Kimberley; $75,000 to Dr. Jameson, now premier of Cape Col ony, and Sir Lewis Mitchell, chairman of the De Beers company and a trustee of the Rhodes fund, for the same pur- poses in Cape Colony; S100000 is left to the Kings hospital (Iondon) funds, and $10O00O to Guys hospital, Lon don, and $200,000 is to be distributed equally in London and Hamburg by Mir. Belts executors for educational or charitable pursuits.
 The testator continuing, says that believing that civilization can best be advanced in Africa by the construction of railways, telegraphs and telephones, and wireless telegraphs, and knowing how difficult 1t is to raise money for these purposes, he leaves in stocks and shares to his partners to constitute a fund, the income of which Is to be de- voted to, the construction, equipment or furtherance of any such methods of communication or transportation in Rhodesia, Portuguese South Africa, or the German possessions, and any parts of Africa that may be traversed in es- tablishing the Cape-to-Cairo railway, telegraph or telephone lines.
 It is. believed that the aggregate of S19 ROO 000