CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 144, 26 May 1883, Page 2

CAUSE A ND EFFECT.

One of the awkward results ot C6stle'y's J bequest (says the Auckland correspondent of the Otago Times) has been to partially dry up; the.' stream of local benevolence. It is believed that it will take a twelvemonth to wind up his estate, and m the meantime some of the institutions benefited find adimcul y in keepir. g in.rnnning order, as subscribers fail to see why they Bhould continue their^ subscriptions m ; the ijace of. the 'magnificent 1 bVqtierits' l iicmyg Vtbi'Unch place?.- -The Coßtley bequest will be fomewhat different from most of such trustf j -if it is^ efficientlyi ■- -juj^iciciusly,. and economically administered. Already proposal haßbeen-tbrown out m some papers, without rebuke or. .dissent, that action should be taken m the General Assembly during the ensuing session to diyerf "the bequest to the Industrial School, iLbhimarairia, from thatlnstitutioii 1 to the J Grrls-ETigh School. In other' words, that the dfstitute and riegifcied children be defrauded of that which, has been lett tor them, m order tbac the daughters of " the upper ten " should-beipractically «' dead-headed "at fh'at afistocratiid iiisfilutibn.- These are the straws which show how the wind blows j and dos» ; ley's .bequest willbe a public misfortune ...rather than a g'aiu, if it only rlosee the purses of others and intensifies a spirit of meanness rather thanT stimulate pubjic^ liberality and public spirit;