AN ACQUISITION FOR AUCKLAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2255, 17 October 1889, Page 2

AN ACQUISITION FOR AUCKLAND

Auckland is likely to receive 'a notable J addulon to the ranks of its settlers In the perßon of Mr Shepherd Ailed, M;P M If we "lay j'idge ftoin some part|3ular« given of thai "gentleman In a reoent natnbor of the " New ZjaUnd Mothodlst " by a colonial oorreep ndent who, while on a trip to England, vUittd Mr Allen at h a eest, Wo idhead Hall, Oueadle. The writer regarda !M,r Alieu a* real'y a stnki.ng example of what QhrUtian. oomrauniam ought to be, tfld gives the following insUnoea of bis genetoiliy and munificence: -"Two <-vangellats and one aaperinfcendenc Wejloyan minister he keeps entirely. Sometlmea five pronoheys, qll eqppottod by blrfl, ?6 York «,t the flame'ilme la disroot parts of Eogiand* He entertains 10.000 oblJdren and aduhe once a yeac lv his tplondld grounds at Woodhead Sa'a . Oa the dft y l 9"»ved ho had over +000 there, but It wjb explained to me that h was only a small tff*lc that day. Blight or Tiina dlflf«rent Sunday aohoola, whb their teachers and many friends, made up this number, and though Mr Allen Is a Wesleyan, he luvltep all donomlnatlona to hla feaata. The children hwe a wings, etc, put up for them In the park, but the older ones are Invited to use the l*wn. Such a lawn, evon In this rloh oountry, Is seldom aoeu. Two tennis oourta, three otojnet grounds, and three bowling p aoea oan nil bo used at the name time, -f hough Mr Allen le evidently very wealthy, and lives In cue of Ihe fiaoat private houses In Bogland, yet bo retnina •11 the ohristlan simplicity of a poor man, and tkaea Liawpkau a local preacher m the Oheadle Circuit, ja-[ as bia poaohman does, who happens tilso to ba a. local preaphor on the same plan.