CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1795, 28 June 1906, Page 3

CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY.

Poor old Captain William Jackson Barry scorns to have fallen upon evil days. He turned up unexpectedly at Lyttelton on Saturday, and ore the close of the day

found himself the inmate of the Samaritan Home. He arrived at Christchurch from Wellington on Monday morning by the s.s. Mararoa. It is surmised that liis passage to Lyttelton was paid by some friend, as lie himself was without means. Ho went to Christchurch, but returned later in the day to Lyttelton, and went on board the steamer again, stating that he wished to go back to Wellington. He bad Dot the wherewithal to pay bis fare, and as he was in a condition of suoh. helplessness from old age and physical weakness as to be practically unable to t*ke oare of himself tbo police were oommunioated with, in order that ho might be provided for. The authorities at the Samaritan Home, j in response to an application, agreed to take the old man, and he was accordingly sent to Cbristchuroh under the oare of a constable, and conveyed to that institution. The veteran’s proceedings in Wellington, it appears, caused some trouble to the benevolent trustees and tbe police. The New Zealand Times states that a few nights ego he was sent to tbe police I station in a cab by a citizen who had I found him sitting on the kerbstone of one of the main thoroughfares. Owing to the lateness of the hour, nothing oould be done for him other than to accommodate bim for tho night at the police station. Next day bo was sent to the Salvation Army Home, the authorities of which consented to put him up for that night, but stated that they oould do no more than that owing to their home being unsnited for that class of oase. On Friday morning tbe polioe received intimation that Captain Barry had olearod out from the Army-Home, and they are now sorely puzzled what to do to make provision for bim when they find him again. He had,

it is Baid, declined to enter the Ohira Home, which he has been given the option of doing.

_Mr F. Pirani, who recently purchased the Feilding Star, takes possession on July 1. We hope jthat in the near future adequate provision will he made in Nelson for agricultural training, and if such training.is carried on in the various districts of the colony there is reason to believe that farming will become more and more profitable, as well as interesting, with the result that farmers will become increasingly powerful socially, and add further to the wealth of New Zealand. —Nelson Colonist.