jlh the March number of the Sword and .Trowel the Eev. C. H Squrgeon says: — -A gentleman writes from New Zealand, begging our influence m finding 1 ? ' hiui a wife, preferably a widow. He says 1 that they need "their loads of widows" out there. We do nbt feel that we can enter intq the matchtrade; but, incidentally, it did occur to us to be a miserable eiren Distance that thousands of good women should be starving m this^. country while m many of the . colonies the price would literally be "above rubies." In tho present distress we dare not. keep back even an amusing, incident, , if it m^y put people m mind of one of the few remedies for London's, ills." Emigration would be agreat>iid at this time, and some who cannot be useful at home must nerve themselves to go abioad. If he demand is so urgent cannot the perspective husbands m Ne»v Zealand charter a vessel or two to take out widows, and thus meet the needs of the colony, wiihoutfpei'plexirig' the zenVous pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle?
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 44, 20 July 1885, Page 4
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