The name of this man was Charles Pauli. Pauli was employed on the “Christchurch Press” newspaper and he was the only friend made by Butler in New Zealand whose life was to be closely interwoven with his. The two met in Christchurch. Butler had made a considerable sum of money out of his sheep station, and fascinated by the radiant manner of Pauli, he offered his new friend £100 to pay his passage to England, in addition to an allowance of £200 a year until Pauli got called to the Bar. Pauli continued to accept grants from Butler until it amounted in all to a sum of £6,000 even although he knew that, during a good deal of this time. Butler was himself in straightened circumstances. It was page 31 only after Pauli's death that Butler learned that his friend had been earning £800 a year and had left a fortune, but not a penny to Butler. Of this friendship, one biographer writes, “This pitiful story does more credit to Butler's heart than to his head.”