THE UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 324, 23 January 1871, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED.

To the Editor of the EvuNiKa Stab. Sin, —In a leader in the Evening News of Saturday last I read the following . —" Among those complaining most loudly of the want of work arc many who were lured from Victoria by extravagant accounts of the Thames Goldfield and now wish to go back again." As one of those who came at the time alluded, I assert that of all the journals then in existence in Auckland there was not one so bad in this respect as the Evening Hews, Exaggeration of the most grossly untruthful kind were there printed with large headings, and largo packages of the papers were sent away by every vessel for distribution by shippers in Sydney and Melbourne. I appeal to any one in Auckland to say if this is not a notorious fact. I for one came in that rush, and I have yet the feelings which I cxperiencd then on finding the heartless system practised at the time by the Evening News to attack and squeeze the pennies out of the unfortunate dupes of newspaper mendacity. That paper now toadies the "poor men" for the fame purpose; while madly making puny efforts to oppose the railway system and the loan that would benefit above all others the "poor mem." —l am, &c, An Unlucky Miner.

To the Editor of the Evening Stah

Fir,—Can you tell me if " Wetton" (the President of the Working Men's Protection Society), is the same Wetton that formerly kept the Tnraru lighthouse ? And if so, what did he leave that place for ? Is he the same Wetton that was working at the Breakwater and left to become one of the " unemployed," and wait on the Superintendent ? And is it the same Wetton that now struts up and down Queen-street flourishing a riding whip, the envy of many a hardworking man whose nose is kept firmly to the gridstone for the sake of his wife and children ?—I am, &c, A Working Man.