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114 years. If a person cannot manage his property to the best possible advantage, and if he involves his estate in heavy debts and thus reduces his heirs and estate to an impoverished condition, why should he be considered by the Government to deserve any distinction? I therefore sincerely hope that the Government will not bestow titles and honours on such persons.

Permanent charity means the money spent on permanent objects, such as the digging of wells and tanks for drinking-water, the laying out of public gardens and the planting of avenues of trees along the roads, and the providing of buildings and permanent funds for public institutions, such as schools, hospitals, rest-houses for travellers, and poor-houses, and so forth.

Though I have nothing to say against classifying charity under four heads as