"Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot'

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 150, 12 June 1890, Page 3

" Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot '

A gentleman who returned from San Francisco quite recently states that while iv that city he was astonished to drop across many familiar New Zealand faces. Among others, a Mr Samuel Jackson, a lawyer, ont> time well knowu iv Auckland, who is following his profession in the City of an Francisco to considerable advantage; aMr McNish— at onetime gaoler of the Wanganui prisou ; a Mr A. Filmor— another Now Zealand gentleman, who, on his arrival there first of all, obtaiued employment in a grocer's -shop; shortly afterwards, however, making a number of friends, he started as a commission agent in a town some 30 miles from San Francisco, where it is expected he will do well. Another individual well known on the Wanganui coast — a Mr Dudley Eyre — formerly a temperance lecturer — is now proprietor of a 'dive' — or drinking saloon — in the centre of that huge city. This gentleman is supposed to be coining money in thi. ' dive,' which is known as the • Pom berton Palace,' and it is exj c ;te. be fore long he will have enough laid by to enable him once more to follow his original profession of • Total Abstinence I Many other New Zealand persons besides those named have collected in this ' city of refuge' — many of whom, it is satisfactory to know, are more or less doing well. —a— a— a——