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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 602, 14 December 1871, Page 2

To the Editor of the Evening Stab. Sib, —About three weeks since I was hawking in Queen-street, and called in at Mr Canning, the confectioner's shop. He examined my basket, and took up a tail comb, for which I asked him one shilling. He deliberately broke it and then refused to pay for it. I called on him last night, and he told me, on my requesting him to pay me, that if I did not get out of his shop he would call a policeman. I am a poor man, and am working for another party, to whom I am accountable for all the goods I carry. I cannot afford to take legal proceedings, but I trust to your generosity to expose such a shameful imposition on a man who is hard struggling to gain an honest living, As a friend of all hard-working men, I presume to address this letter to you. I am, Sir, Your,s most respectfully, Babnet Simons. [We give insertion to the above, but we feel certain that on Mr Canning being applied to in a proper spirit, if the statement is correct, he will do what is right. Ed. jff.S.]