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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1797, 23 March 1888, Page 3

The «< Southland News" says:— How it may be m other parts of the colony it ia not, for the moment, necessary to inquire, but ono thing ia quite oortain, that, locally, there is more poverty, if not absolute destitution, than could be imagined by those who only look at the surface of things. Seeing the ' well-fed and well-dressed crowds that j assemble on public occasions, thronging tho streets and railway stations on holidays, the natural conclusion of a visitor would be that he was m the midst of a community where want was unknown. The utter absence of mendicancy, too, would strongly confirm this belief. Yet, m Bpite of ali tbese unmistakeable indications of well-being, as regards the great majority of the people, t^eve but too pat>ny _Qag.es m which the struggle for existence ie a hard and bitter one— in which life has suoh poor and sordid surroundings as to mako it hardly worth living. Mr Walter J. Leslie, of the "Wellington Press," and the publisher of a. series of olever parliamentary sketches now being issued, has received the vacanoy on the " liansard " staff. A man' m Ohio has just been buried m a coffin made from a tree which he planted for tbe purpose 60 yean previously,