An Excellent Speech.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 April 1890, Page 2

An Excellent Speech.

The CostUy Home for the aged poor, situated at One Tree Hill, Spiom, wu fomail/openeitni Wtdnsfdtj

by Bis Excellency the EwV of Oi slow, in the large gathering oi tl citifiens of Auckland and residents i thS 'BUrfottndiilg districts., Tl Cotitittisa c! Ouslow accompanU His Excellency, WVerHoif d livered an address, in which he jpol in the highest terms of the philai thropy and generosity of the la' Edward Costley, by whose mun ficencethe home had been huil Lord Onslow proceeded ■:— " I coi fess that I agree with a writer to tb morning paper a few days ago, an that as a stranger I am struck by tb absence of any prominent memoru to the uoble acts of Edward Costlej It is true that everyone entering th Piiblib' liibrary (and no one visitini Y6ur cltv: ia liktW to fail to ente Ing and valuable ooHectipri) wilt s'ei a tablet recording the. services 0 Edward" Costley to the Library, am 'it it eaaaily true that this home, thi .NurW Homo, and ntw schfo] in oonnection -with the KohimaramE will be nitenV monuments to bit A Wft : * Bdt oa^^annot Help feeling *£HStfiadi, actions as hia ougbt to tf< fbwughfe prominently 'bt&m;, ;.p%qxy ..citizen ai he goes to and .from his •plaoVof business, to be en example t6 ifety 'tMM as ht passea^oand fiwoi his morning's school .: sonje memprijiil wHich shall say. to every dßOan gothou and do likewise.. In . ft. young country )ike j this> suoh deeds of . itoprjSsity' froitt the nature of 4 ihings"oannot be •xpected to be as plentiful as in an older country where wealth has ior .generations bien adcoriiulatrng. Large fortunes have undoubtedly been made, here, and I fear in •some instances, lost hiro tod; but there are many men itjirjaijghoui tlie€plony who came to .it pop»» anil who are n>w rich, .. To • some of these it may be * matter of | floi?i«rn' how they will of ... th«i* It is not likely that .. in a'atmbcratic country such as whera, Kereiitary titles are .never iik«Jy to find a footing, any man will 's«lk to foutfd a family by leaving aU .^possessions to one man, but there are some who look forward in taking away the wealth they have drawn from the fertility of >New Zealand . jnil.tri i spend it in London, or amid 4he high civilisations of European capitals, ' Or whb hope to attain to wme degree of eiQm«nee or feme in ilie CW Country ; but. believe me, among the hundreds who are tramp* ing' on each others' heads in the 'e^Hsh to attain to fame in England, , ( very * few reach tbe goal.. Some mistake the side paths which lead to . notoriety rather than fame,, and the igptJorfety often is of an ? uoenviaWe .< nature, but tbe great majority f il itt aU except spending, their money. Then the, .page of history is a long one, tad there is room for only a .few exceptionally illustrious names toVke reoorded on it to day. Here . all is young all^ is new, and the man who renders signal service to his fellow countrymen will find his name inscribed in the early chapters of the history of a country which is likely to have a great future, not lesa glorious than the great Mother Country from which : w« are all sprung. 1 * Brief addresses were given fey the V Mayor of Auckland (Mr ' Upon), and by sereral olergynaenr. 'Xbehome is a fine brick structure, •Which will accommodate 240 in* matei. It coft about £7000.