THE HOLLOWAY LUNATIC ASYLUM

Dunstan Times, Issue 606, 28 November 1873, Page 2

THE HOLLOWAY LUNATIC ASYLUM

Upon St. Ann’s Heath, one of the most picturesque elevations in the county of Surrey, Mr. Thomas Holloway, whoso name is known in every land that p- saesses a newspaper, has commenced the erection of a magnificent asylum, which he is about to present to the British nation, for the reception of lunatic patients. The site ot the asylum faces the Virginia Wa'cr station of the Staines and Wokingham branch of ths London and South Western Railway, the front having a south westerley aspect. The ground selected is about twen y-one acres in extent, and five acres of this will be covered by the building, which will be of rich'y decorated Gn'hic arehitecture, having a facade of CIO ft., and a depth of 2’>o ft. The materials will consist of red brick and Portland-stone dressings. There will be a handsome colonnade of massive pillars at the chief entrance and a cent al tower of 170 ft., with turrets at each wing about (JO ft. high. A terrace, 4' ft. "Ide, will run along the principal front and by the wings. The asylum will cost I '(1,0001. will take three years in buiidin;, and is inten led to accommodate about 400 male and female patients. To r architects are Messrs. Cropland, Salomons, and Jones, of Carlton Chambers, Regent Street The Times, Aug. 21, 1873.

With the foregoing we received the following letter : Dear Sir, 1 take leave most respectfully to enclose herewith, copy of an Editorial article, which appealed in the London Times of the 21st August, 1873. In addition to the amount referred to therein, I propose to devote a further sum of half a million sterling, as a free gift, to the Nation, none especially of the mi I lie classes in reduced circumstances. Should it pi ase you to insert in your valuable paper, the article now sent, it might induce wealthy persons, with you, to do the like. I remain, Dear Sir, Your’s faithfully, THOMAS HOLLOWAY.

T lie meeting days of the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, in future will be Wednesdays, and the hour 11 p.m. In the telegraphic intelligence published in the Bruce Herald appears the following: “The ('himsc are Icing employed in sheep sheering in the Dunstan distiie.t The time-worn saying, "gofiom home to hear news,’ 1 is very applicable in this instance. It is stated, on authority of a German coo - ', that turkeys and other fowls (an 1« rendered unusually tender i 1 ’ .a glass of rum be ] cured into tin m an Lour 1 efo c hiding even if they ate inested immediate!) alter 1 killed