SIR GEOEGE ARNEY'S GENEROSITY.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 137, 28 April 1883, Page 84

SIR GEOEGE ARNEY'S GENEROSITY.

It is not at all remarkable that the people of Auckland loA r e the memory of Sir George A. Arney, because during his residence iv this city he did so very many acts of kindness. He was not one of those who blew a trumpet at tLe earner when he gave alms. A correspondent, who knew him well, on the occasion of a passage from Wellington to Auckland, says : — Sir, I was so ill that I had to be carried on board, I had rheumatic govit, and was in great pain. My wife was kindly enough, but the kindest, most careful, and most gentlemanly among all on board that steamer was the Late Chief Justice. He came to the berth, spoke words of cheering sympathy, and saw that I was attended to. It was noblesse oblige with the instinct of his breed, he came to the rescue of the weak, and I felt that I ought to place this testimony on record, as a mere matter of gratitude — I am, sir, yours, " Nemo." — [It was not necessary for our correspondent to bear witness to the manliness of the late Sir George A. Arney. We, on many oliiiJksis^Jn our old reportorial ances in the Supreme Court, admired his tempered with mercy, and hia adherence i In private life he was respected for his