True Philanthropy.
• ' J)t >ff. organiser of children's rescue wojik, has lately secured an earnest coadjiitoi» (/ m a. somewhat peculiar manner. ; 14. 'gentleman adveitiaed some months ago offering £1000 to any person who Would intr.oduc^jum |;o,Gb.riatian work m a" CUristuinV instittttion^, foy rjoor children. Dr Bavnardo, m respoh^e, f , placed the claim.s of his East-end worjk ; adyertisqir, the result- being -, that the gentleman^in question became , so interested m the work that he ;has n6w° devoted 5 'himselfTiJßSleJy to ; it^. luijtjijjei ance. He was formerly 1 a partner m a large and very wealthy brew,ery m- one of .the provinces, , his* j)&r.tner and relative representing m Parliament the county m which it he brewery is situated. Uiider the influence of religious conviction 'the gentleman'referred to relinquished his' sjiare m the business at a sacrifice of njariy' thousands -a ye^r income; and since' his introduction to Drßarnardo he has, left his estate m the Isle of Wight' and personally promoted the Canada emir gration ncheine which is p«rt of theagencies ,at work m connection with the Stephen Homes. He has just bought, an estate of 80^0 acres at some djgtancp fvohi |.he metVo^Hs,' *yhidh he intehejs to devote to "farm work, tq bo caiTJed on "by boys drafted from Step : ney'.' The first batch of 50 boyg are already engaged under his superintendence,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 103, 27 March 1884, Page 2
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220True Philanthropy. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 103, 27 March 1884, Page 2
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