Mr Macassey at Home.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 211, 25 November 1873, Page 7

Mr Macassey at Home.

The following reference to a well-known New Zealand colonist appears in the European Mail:—The other day the dwellers in and around Haverstock Hill were reminded by the appearance of the British flag, which | does duty on grand occasions on the roof of the Orphan Working School, that something of importance was going on in that popular, useful, and well conducted institution. A fine day had brought together a large number of old scholars, who had been invited to the meeting, which takes place once a year. The chair was taken by an old scholar, who, about eighteen years ago, was one of the inmates of the institution, and had left it to push his way in New Zealand. He had had a good education at the Orphan School, and the sense to make good use of it. In the New World he had opportunities of advancement denied him in the Old ; and thus it came to pass that the poor orphan of many years ago became the successful barrister of to-day, and that he presided at the meeting, and was in troduced to the present generation of scholars as Mr James Macassey, of Dunedin, New Zealand. As ho was attended by his wife and sister, and as he had a youthful appearance, very much unlike that of an old boy, and as he spoke with much feeling and good sense, and declaimed very strongly against the woi'ship of mammon—a form of idolatry with which young people have very little sympathy—it is scarcely necessary to observe that he was received with uproarious applause."