A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Evening Star, Issue 3976, 22 November 1875, Page 3

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Some circumstances connected with the life i f an individual who has just left Wellington (says the ‘ iN. Z Times’), would form ihe ba is of a tomrably s.nsational novel. This person, whom we may call Blank for brevity sake (ho has a longer name), came out to the Lolony tighuen oars ago, a mere lad, having lett hitount.ry to get an insight into the world, uke a good many more who have staite.d on the sea of life with the same object, he sue cee led ; but since his arrival he managed to S;:eouly one side of dfe, and that the daik oide. He started with a decent capital, but soon got <juifc of it after arriving in Auck-

land. With the loss of capital came the loss of friends —everday *Xi i muce. Kor three years ho ‘‘chummed in” with the Maoiis, but committing it breach of their marriage laws he had to travel Next he betook himself to the We,t i cast, where his occupation were v.-ried—first, owner of a small cralt, t.hrn a rag and bo tie collect or ; but succeeding in neither, be took himself to Welling on Tliere, a few w eks aft'T bis arrival, he chanced to see a fr end who had known him when a boy in his father’s home, and from him ho learned that an uncle had died leaving him a fortune of LSOO a-year, together with a small estate in Liverpool. He has since gone Homo. Blank never com-

municated with his friends and relations from the time he began to descend the ladder of life, and thus he became to ihem little better than d"ad. The will which made him heir to his uncle’s property, contained a condition that if he should not make his existence known within three years the property would go to a distant cousin. Ot| the three years only six months remained, when a mere chance brought him into contact with the man who carried with him a knowledge so precious to poor Blank.