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Show CHARITY ON A BROAD SCALE. An Indian Millionaire Gives Five Millions Mil-lions to Relieve Sufferers. Naurojee Maneckjee Wadia, C. I. E., J. P., a Parsee millionaire of Bombay, has set aside a sum of money equivalent equiva-lent to 15,000,000, the interest of which is to be devoted to give relief to those who find themselves suddenly sud-denly deprived of means of subsistence by great calamities, such as fire, famine fam-ine or earthquake. In order that his charity should be far reaching in its effects, the scope of the trust will not be confined to one place or country, but will be extended to all parts of the world. Mr. Wadia belongs to an ancient an-cient Parsee family of shipwrights, who have, during the course of a century cen-tury and a half, built 3S0 meu-of-war and other vessels. The Vvanias ren- dered great service to the Ferxh government, gov-ernment, and as an act of recognition Napoleon Bonaparte p:esei:tcd the great-grandfather of the present Mr. Wadia with the Legion of Hjuor, and his grandfather was awarded a gold medal by Louis Philippe. Mr. Wadia has given away large sums of money i.i charity, and lately headed the Bombay Bom-bay Martinique Relief Fund with a large donation. |