A REMARKABLE PHILANTHROPY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 21 March 1884, Page 2

A REMARKABLE PHILANTHROPY.

l)r T. G. Barnardo, the well-known organise!' of children's rescue work, has lately secured an earnest coadjutor in n somewhat peculiar manner. A gentleman advertised some months ago offering £IOOO to any person who ,would introduce him to Christian work in a Christian institution for poor children. Dr Barnardo, in response, placed the claims of his East-end work before the advertiser, the result being that the gentleman in question became so interested in the work that he has now devoted himself solely to its furtherance. He was formerly a partner in a large and very wealthy brewery in one of the provinces, his partner and relative representing in Parliament the county in which tho brewery is situated, Under the influence of religious conviction tho gentleman referred to relinquished his share in the business at a sacrifice of many thousands a year income j and since his introduction to Dr Barnardo he has left his estate in the Isle ot Wight and personally promoted the Canada emigration scheme 'which is part of the agencies at work in connection with the Stephen Homes, I'le has just bought an estate of 8000 acres at some distance from the metropolis, ■which he intends to devote to farm work, to be carried on by boys drafted from Stepney. The first batch of 50 boys are already engaged undor his superintendence.