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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1673, 1 April 1886, Page 2

A peculiarly distressing casecamebji* fore the Wellington Benevolent Trottees a few day* ago. Application'^ was made'for r«H«£ by ,i- solicitor'! clerk, aged 50 years, who has a wife/ a child 19 months old, and a < still younger fant to provide for. The applicautV m % long and weil-writtei: letteiy explained the , difficulties he had met with m sesreniug for work, and askgdi th«t tht Trustees would assist him, adding" that he was very willing to work. It was decided to j?iv« assistance, but'thc Trustees^consideredjthat as the applicant waf •vidently a person of very superior *dacation, some good be done by giriug publicity to the particulars. Mr E. W. Morrah, who has been In* spector of the Bank -of; Australia m this Colony for the part 9 or 10 ytars, left Auckland on Tuesday* ©y the San Francisco mail steamer Alameda. Mr Morrah, who is going for a holiday tour wilt be replacod during his absenoe by Mr W. Sawyers who was ' roW several years nianagor ofUhe Bank, of Australasia m Wellington. It is understood tliat Mr Morrah : will shortly retm o» pension. He is one of the oldest officers oCrthe Bank of Australasia, and during an important period held the position of manager on the Uallarat Qoldfield, where, as m Wellington, he was much esteemed.— Wellington paper.