Practical Sympathy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 154, 8 June 1883, Page 3

Practical Sympathy.

[Wellington Paper.]

A touching lllustrrtiion was given last night of that beautiful charity which *• blesseth him that gives and hib that takes." A clergyman lately from England/a B.A. of Cambridge University (Jeremiah Murphy) became a prey to the consuming vice of drunkenness, and having starved and then deserted his wife and young family m Wellington, they had to seek that relief which is the local equivalent ©f the parish dole, thonah less degrading. The case has excited much sympathy during the last few we, ks j and this instructive contrast is now presenter!, that whereas the husband who ought to be also the protector and provider ? or this family has gone his own selfish aod sottish w*y, leaving them to pe.ish for ought he cares, a c owd of seven or eight hundred people went to »he athenaeum concert lant night to add their contributions for relieving this deaerted family, and pUciu« them beyond present want. Only half the generous people who went fto the hall were able to get inside, so great wbs the crush. Between L3O and L4O will have been realised. Further liberal help is expected from hah the proceeds ot the amateur dramatic peifornrnce to be given m aid of the two distressed Murphy families on Friday next.