A BISHOP’S BROTHER

Evening Star, Issue 3745, 23 February 1875, Page 3

A BISHOP’S BROTHER

A' painful contrast, illustrative of Colonial life, comes under our notice. A gentleman from Melbourne thus appeals to one of the staff of the ‘ Pastoral Times ’:—“ I called to-day, with Mr W. Owen, (of Collier, Barry, and Co), to see Mr J, Jones Thomas, who is, I am sorry to say, laid up with cancer on the tongue. I must say that I never saw such poverty in my life. I don’t think his children get enough to eat. I have come to the conclusion to collect some money for them, etc. Mr is a B.A. or M. A. of Cambridge, is a teacher of languages, and is brother to the Bishop of Goulborn, New South Wales, now in England. A letter received from the Bishop recently, stated that he and his wife were stopping with the Earl of Belmore, in Ireland. The Bishop’s poor unfortunate sick brother (says the ‘ Pastoral Times,’) is in the condition stated, in one of the suburbs of Melbourne Dr Wilkie, Mr W. T. Jones, Mr

Collier, and others are raising money for the sufferer; but why does the Bishop (who has no children,) not do his part 1 Surely out of his income he could spare LIOO a-year to al'ay the sufferings of his poor brother, his wife, and poverty-stricken children. The Bishop, before ho left for England, knew of his brother's poverty.”