A STRANGE STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A STRANGE STORY.

It is not an unusual i thing to bear of a .W.aterloo veteran ; of a man claiming this distinction,'/who appeared before the C'ornmittee :in Melbourne Jidjriiesion to that institution, was peculiarly interesting. If the statement was correct the 'stb'Ff" is 'indeed "a " Richard lawyer, now seventy-two years of ago, Ka|ffor somo months past been living at Cheltenham, subsisting on the charity of fhTT residents of th at"" locality." Atone tiiae,he appears to have been a very rich man, and 20 years ago he was, it is said, a passenger oh; the steamer London during, the ..ypyagei ill-faced vessel foundered \iu the, Bay of Biscay. l)wynr rjWfiH.,; numbered ! among the few fl'u'r.viypre,- but his wife and two daughters' Went down with,the ill-fated vessel. To nVld to his loss, a sum of £11,200, according to his representations, -sank with tlie wreck, together with cargo belonging to him. valued at £250. -The unfortunate fellow', seems never to have prospered afterwards; ,;Ho ; is said to have worked hard in many, ways, 'at;d for? some years pyst,has lived in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham.; ..The other day, ho\yever, he stood,before: the:, committee, aged and in. firm, utterly destitute and entirely alone in.;tho world. : His.case.was/considered a pitiful one, and,, together with the Strangeness of his story, so worked upon the, feelings.of; ,t]ie committee th'iti they admitted nim to the shelter of the asylum. His admission: filled up ■ one of the only two vacancies that, were -available, and for''which there were numerous applicants. .■. j i^j_j_i V-_ 1 -\: ''■ ■ i'