RESCUE WORK IN QUEENSLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 5

RESCUE WORK IN QUEENSLAND.

Writing- from Brisbane on September 12th to a special friend in Auckland, Mr« Hubchinson says : — I really did appreciate your nice long letter by yesterday's mail. Although perfectly satisfied with my present position and work, and am treated well by Army and people, yet at times a strange sense of loneliness steals over me, when I find time to awake to the fact that I am far away from those I love in dear old Auckland. But fortunately for myself, lam kept conptantly busy. What with visiting gaols, police cells, hospitals, and dens of vice and infamy, I am always employed in the work that lies nearest to my heart, and there is no privilege I esteem so highly as the Chrietlike one of raising the fallen and the outcast. The people here are in full sympathy with my work, and I am being bleat on every hand. The Government have given me all the aid in their power in reaching the class we aim to reach. I have access to every prison and Government institution in the colony, and a free railway pass covering the colony, and sometimes travel two or three hundreds of miles. You can see this could nob bo done unless at an enormous expense. The climate here sofarisgood, butlam told thesummeristerriblo. The Police Courthere is very different to your Auckland one. The police magistrate is also a help to our work, and does all he can to further our object that lies in his power. It is awful to see the wrotched - looking people as they aro brought before the ( ourt for sen* tence ; ono's heart grows sick within them as they realiso thoir weakness to grapple with tl>e great tide of iniquity, but in tho strength of the Lord Igo on. The new Army Major has arrived, and he is a fine, earnest fellow. Miss Ackerman has anived here, and I am going to speak at one of her Mission gatherings ; ray aim is to bo a better worker than a taker. Kemember mo to tho members of the press, for I can say as " Poor Joe," in Dickens' delineation, '* they was very good to me, they was." She winds up her letter by saying that the sorrows of others 6he comes in contact daily cast shadows over her heart. All will remember Mrs Huchinson and her felf-sacrificing work for the fallen in Auckland, and only hope that such were to bo found now, who instead of chatting about what might bo done to raise tho wretched fallen sister, would go ont and with their own hands fctoop and lift them up and help them in the struggle to reform,