A Lost Heir.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 173, 4 March 1873, Page 6

A Lost Heir.

The North Otago Times writes the follow-1 ing article in the interests of one wanted at | Home. We gladly respond to the invitation to reprint it :—- " There is a column in the London Times which is generally designated the ' agony column.' It contains appeals, often piteous indeed, by parents to children, children to parents, wives to husbands, and husbands to wives. For instance, it i 3 common enough to see such a notice as this: ' Should this meet the eye of , he is earnestly urged ! to return home. All will be forgiven.' There ! is much of ' agony' in domestic circles half- j revealed by these notices, and the thoughtful reader will realise with startling force the' fact that in our crowded cities there are | miseries and sorrows, crimes even, that the world knows not, and recks not of. But London occupies no unique position. Where humanity lives, there humanity suffers ; and perhaps, in these distant Colonies, these ultimate offshoots of the throbbing life of the Old World, there are as ample materials for a story of sorrow—ay, ampler, proportionately, than are to be found in the thronged thoroughfares within sound of Bow Bells, j How often does it happen that the youth of j the old home, in whose pulses the blood j beats fast, rush away to the outer verge of! the earth, full of hope, full of energy, at- j tracted by the prospect of a life of adventure, ! whose stirring incidents shall contrast attractively with the ' humdrum,' steady-going j home pace. Not, like the Athenians, only j seeking 'something new,' the 'young bloods' j of the present day seek something exciting, j and cross the seas in search of it. But too j often when they reach these distant shores, they are drawn into a vortex of dissipation ; they lose their self-respect ; they cease to keep up communication by letter with the | dear ones left behind, and drop out of knowledge altogether, so far as their home connections are concerned. —We do not write theo- ! retically, but have actual fact for our text, j " In our issue of the 7th June, 1872, ap- j peared the following advertisement: —' Mis- : sing Friends.—lnformation as to the where-j aboilta or last address of Edward Lloyd ' Trevor, known in the Colony as Edward, Lloyd, and working so lately as 9th Novcm-1 ber, 18159, in Otago, will be gladly received j by the undersigned. E. L. Trevor"landed in \ Lyttelton in 1805, and subsequently went to j Timaru, and it is believed worked on several' sheep-stations as a shearer under the name iof Edward Lloyd.—o. T. Evans, Cloon | Savin.' Several times this advertisement appeared, ! but no information was obtained. Nov.' | comes the rest of the story. In the Bslfasi \Kews Letter of Doc. 4th, 1872, appears the following obituary notice :—'Trevor. —Dec. i2, at Lisnagead, Co. Down, Edward Hill Trevor, Esq., J.P.' j father of the Edward Lloyd Trevor for whom we advertised last year, and we understand ! that the non-receipt of letters from his son I preyed upon his mind to such an extent as to j shorten his life. Mr Edward Hill Trevor ! was a wealthy man, and his son Edward is j heir to a property worth L.150D a year. (Loving friends arc looking for him at home, | and we pen these lines in the hope that they 'may meet Ins eye. We are authorised to | write plainly, m search has hitherto been made without avail; and if those of our con- ' temporaries whom this article may roach will ;reprint it, they will join us in endeavouring j to find one who is anxiously looked for across : the sea."