A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 305, 16 November 1875, Page 4

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Some ciroomaiances cocneoted with the life of an individual who has just left yeHiqgtoiff (^ays the \&;&-Tfa&si woaft ; form ihe baais of a tolerably* sensational novel. This person, we may call Blank for brevity-sake (he has a looger .nacSe),:;caaje out: to the oftlo.ny r 18 yearß ago, a m^re ;la,d, haying,; left tp gat a,n insight injo; the world. Like a good meny more who have started on the sea of life with the same object, he succeeded ; but since his arrival he managed to see only on 3 side of life, and tHat^he^dark side. He started with a decent cnpi.ta.l: but soon got quit of it after. srrjv.ing ip; ; Auckland. Blank then came down in the world, and was shunned by a)l wb^ had courted his society while tbe cash lagted.. Fjndinp h|B then condition, almost inaqpport&hje, he le(t fprcthe bt»ah, andj to! use: bis ; own; words, '* cßammed in With a hap a of natives," ; and lived with ifienj \' W the l^u.ab for over three years', ai the end -pf • w.hich j tjme he managed to commit a breach of the 'Maori' marriage lawsi' 'Blank, therefore, (Jet^rmiqedv^ 16 a|e^ f or ;fr^sh ftcenes^ .^,' ! . after' {raiyeHio^ fpr .some Jiving he hardly knew how, arrived on the. Weat Coaat, and there made asraaU pile, with which he smarted in life, and Lbdug^/ji cu'^eri'wi^h 7 he traded along the coasts but Blank's ideas of trade were of a novel dhar'acter, and 1 the speculation : dap.c ; (ifit^bte,-T--so much so^ jndeed, thai tie soon had to pari with; hie craft, and was; Jeft • almoat v pennilesa. -He then ' siarlied :as a : rag and : bottle collector, but that did not prove payable, and ai last Blank wa&,; reduced to a miserable. conditioQ, and fell lovver, and lower in the social scale.' ' Thia ' part of- his" ex-' iaten'ce has better remain unknown to the world, a"n"d for'gditan by himself if that be possible. ** Suffice it that he arrived in Wellington aotne few months ago, weary of the worfd and all in it. But a few weeks after his arrival be chanced 6o.«ee a friend who had l: ; n6wn him when a boy in hia^ father's home, and from him he learned that an uncle bad died leaving him a fortune of £^00 a-year, together with a amall estate in Liverpool. He has since gone home, and it is to be hoped that his past career will lead him to appreciate justly the good fortone that hes ' befsllari birr. There are many cases of this kind to be found in the colonies, otherwise the foregoing facts miglit seem strange, Blapfe never . communicated with bis friends and relations fr9m the time he began to descend the ladder of life, and thus? be became'i to them fHtUeObetiter than dead. Tbe will > which made Him heir to bis uncle's property; contained a condition ihaf if he should not make his existence known' within three years the property". ~>wouTd T 'go iti'H distant cousin. Of th^ , threeiyears only sis months remained, wben ( a mere; chance brought him into contaqt with the man who carried with! Him a ; knowledge so preciqiis to poor ; Blaok, and which ettved him from a prpbablei fate ,that\ cannot be fchdUght of without a shudder. Blank's life had been more his miafbrt>ce than' bia frtulf. '' He came oat here young audetpeiisnced, having- been carefully nurtured in a houaowbere he saw very little of the world ; and, like many mo«i r.ybung ;gen t|.emen, had beenT brought up 'with a cajteful regard to his beipgyutter.ly ; ÜBeleaa ip himaalf or anybody else. Tbus when he waa required to depeud^poji fcimaalf be had nothing to depand on.