Excerpt from The Poems of Alfred Midgley Circuit. While in Toowoomba he married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Vowles, of Newtown, Ipswich. She fell a victim to consumption eleven years afterwards, leaving a son and daughter. In 1876 he was appointed to the Albert Street Circuit, Brisbane. During the third year of his ministry there he resigned his position as a Wesleyan minister. Having obtained a lease of three years of the right to sell produce by auction at the railway siding, Roma street, Brisbane, he entered on business life and con tinned in it until 1887. Financial difficulties then over took him, and from that time till 1902 he was in the employ of several produce firms. In 1883 he was elected m.l.a. For Fassifern. In 1898 he contested unsuccessfully the Bulimba electorate as a Labour candidate. In 1873 he published a small volume of poems; and in 1888 compiled, by the authority of the Lands Department, a handbook on Queensland for distribution in England. In 1886 he married his present wife, who was Miss Sarah Ellen Baron, of Brisbane. There are two sons and four daughters by this marriage. About six years ago there appeared in his right hand the first symptoms of the malady from which he is now suffering. He has had no stroke; but a creeping paralysis has gradually almost deprived him of the use of his limbs. The loving care and ministration of his wife and children are with him in these months of affliction they enable him to bear with cheerful patience the frailties of the flesh, while his Christian faith still makes the will of God his utmost choice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.