A Munificent Gift.

Evening Star, Issue 6915, 30 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Munificent Gift.

It is with no little gratification that we are able to announce the fact that a very handsome gift has been made to the Boys’ and Girls’ Colleges in Nelson by Mr John Tinline, one of the pioneer settlers in this province. Mr '(inline has handed over to the Board of Governors the sum of L 1,200, founded a scholarship at each College. They arc to bo open for competition to all boys and girls of Nelson and Marlborough without regard to the schools at which they may have been educated. The Boys’ College has already been substantially endowed by private individuals, there being four valuable scholarships, bearing the names of those by whom they were established, namely, Major Richmond, MrNewcome, Sir Edward Stafford, and Mr Alfred Fell, but this is the first gift of the kind to tho Girls’ College. The generosity of Mr Tinline in thus conferring so great a boon upon the youth of both sexes of the district in which he has resided so long, and with so much profit to himself, will be highly appreciated by his fellow settlers.— ‘ Nelson Mail.’ Doubtless.—The fruit-venders say that there is always room at the top for the big strawberries,