Herrick's Home.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5272, 31 May 1895, Page 2

Herrick's Home.

Mr Herrick, Superintendent of the City Mission Home, desires to acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following : — Clothing, boots, hate, &c, Mesdameß G. L. Beatfa, Captain Gibson, "Confrere," Mesara Tipping, Evans, Pratt, Cox, M'Beth, Watkins, J. Deans, Miss Searell, Messrs J. J. Wooler, Amberley, W. J., Hardcastle, P. Duncan, J. H. Gardner, J. M'Dougall, Opawa Friend, "Lend a Hand," "Circle," Southbridge, Kilmore Street friend, St Paul's C.E., A&hley Friend, Ashley Sewing Guild and Friends ; food, Sb Paul's Christian Endeavour, Mra Keggs, remains, Eaiapoi Friends, D.1.C., Mr Crowe, St Andrew's Sydenham Masonic Lodge, Mr GiU, Merivale Parsonage and Friends, Ashley Guild; new materials and garments, Mesdamea Izard, G. F. Martin, J. Deans, Gebbie's Valley Friends, Mrs J. F. Garrick and Friendß ; clothing, chairs, sewing-machine, &0., Mrs H. Olney; milk, Mra Julius and Friends ; groats, Mr Allan; bacon, Mr T. Kincaid; vegetables, Mr M'Dougall; sheep, Belfast Meat Freezing Company ; meat, Islington Meat Freezing Company ; apples, Mrs G. L. Beath; dripping, Mrs Baxter and Friends; cheese, Working Men's Co-operative; potatoes, Messrs Secretan, Harris and Anonymous Friend ; fish, Messrs Boardman and Crisp; flour, Messrs D. H. Brown and Sons^fowls^ Mr H. B. Butcher ; blankets, Messrs Ballantyne and Co. and Lonargan and Co.; trees, caaeß, &c, Hon E. C. J. Stevens, Help, Mr Coverdale, Messrs Strange and Co. ; periodicals, Frienda, Burnham Friend, Mr Fenton and Mrs Cameron ; cash, M.N. £1, Home contribution box 5a 2d.

MB SPEAKER GULLY. ♦ • THE MAN AND HIS MANNER. i AN INTERESTING SKETCH. j [FROM OTTB LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] X The doubt in Borne men's minds with J d ■egard to the new Speaker of the Housa of b Commons seema to ba as to whether he c: joafieEses the qualities that will enable him ii ;o dominate the House in momenta of ' p jreat excitement. Mr Mellon appeared J ikely to make an admirable Chairman of : Dommittees, yet he proved, when hio hour it trial a?fT\fS3, a Melancholy failure. Mr Ghitlj'a successes have been principally in arbitrations, and' bb the leader of the Northern Circuit. One contributor, to the personal literature of the moment re- , r marks:— Arbitration, in its frequency and \ f its success is one of the signs of times ef 1 _ great business depression and straitened j incomes and expenditure ; and Mr Gully ' was the very embodiment of. tfis change 1 in our methods of setting buisness dis- 1 putea. His faiiueee, hi 3 spotless integrity J —a temperament co incapable of beipg ' ' ruffled as to be almost angelic, and a \tec- • fectly judicial mind— these are the things ' which made suitors, with all their fierce passion and their conflicting interests, gladly submit their disputes to his arbi- ; trament. j AT THE BAB, : and when he appeared as an advocate \ instead of a judge, there was another quality whioh came out, and which will have an opportunity of revealing itaelf in his new position. That is his grit. Quiet but tenacious, he never flustered and worried the solicitors who instructed him with those moments of depression and " funk " —to use a familiar phrase— by which some of our greatest advocates now and then . paralyse a stirring and hard fight. What- | ever ca3e and whatever view Mr Gully took up he stuck to with equal mind j through good fortune and evil, with < judges who were fair and judges who were { adverse. This is one of the reasons of the { strong hold he has always maintained over j the solicitors as a class. And now what ■ manner of man ia this, and what has been hia method of life ? I don't know ' that there is in London a household , mora TYPICALLY ENGLISH in its highest and purest development ,than that of the Gully family. It is pre- j sided over by a woman emphatically of j the old school in maternal tenderness and ; wifely absorption and devotion. You <; remember that beautiful tribute which ) Thackeray p»ys in one of his novels to ' the tenderness, the purity and the sane- ] tity of the women of this country. I often ■ wish that Thackeray had had an oppor- j tunity of seeing the girls of the Gully i family. In succession they grew up, tall, fair, with perfect regularity of feature, with beautiful complexions, and { with the nameless softness and gentleness j and sweet shyneßS of the young English j girl. It is, perhaps, part of the refinement that belongs to them, that is the characteristic expression of their faces, that they are a musical family. The musical evenings at the home of the Gullye, in Harley Street — that street of large, Eomewhat gaunt, bub spacious and comfortable and central houses — were a pleasant social landmark in their circle of acquaintances. Every player was an amateur, and I have heard that on come occasions no less a person than Lord Chancellor Herschell might be Been playing the violoncello under the vigilant eye and the harmonious ear of the gentleman who conducted the little orchestra.

MB GULLY'S CHABACTER

is written in hia face. He is tall, slim, erect, and wonderfully youthful-looking for a man above the sixties. White hair Burmounts a face that still retains the ruddinesß of youth. His physique is fine. The nose and the mouth are beautifully chiselled ; he is emphatically a handsome and ■ a distinguished-looking man. He has rather a low voice and a very quiet manner; altogether gives the impression of that evenness of temper, and that spontaneous Belf-control that can belong only to a sweet and tranquil nature. He has not taken a very active part in the House ot Commons ; but Jbhere ia one little legislative achievement' of his which ia characteristic. By a curious omission in the law the imputation of unchastity against a woman was hot a punishable offence, civil or criminal. In an outline Bill, Mr Gully sought to remedy the evil. He was violently opposed by Captain Verney<, on the ground that no Buch distinction should be made between imputation on the chastity of a man and a woman. But I believe the Bill, after being destroyed in one session, passed in another. Woman, —the new and the old— has a warm friend in the new Speaker of the House of Commons.