DR. BAKEWELL AND THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 3401, 15 January 1874, Page 3

DR. BAKEWELL AND THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.

The following letter has been handed to jus;; for publication; in the Star;, by Dr. i Hake well and also, by the Sec. etary of the Ssociety : ■ , \ . Parley’s Hall,' January 14, 1874. ■To the Honorary Secretary, St. Joseph’s ; , Lodge, H.A.0.8.5., Dunedin. \ rDear Sir—l beg to acknowledge the receipt (Of your letter of the 13th iiut., giving me, on■the part ; of St.-,Joseph’s Lodge,' three.months’ notice of the termination of bur agreement. I shall be most happy to dispense with the notice 'and givp up the Lodge as soon as you, can make other arrangements for medical attendance,' and pay me what wiU be'duq from, the end of last quarter. ; Had yojir letter terminated with givingmethe required notice, I should have had nothing further ;to, ’saw j dtyft.ifts the second paragraph states .that advertisement for.au English or Scotch servant, I must tell ypu thafl consider this a most impertinent and unwarrantable interference in my domestic affairs. , ; ■ ’ I never interfere with my wife in the engagement or management of her servants, and I will hot allow any man or set of men to do so, ther they call themselves members of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, or by. any othf.r combination of adjectives.. ’ Let me advise the members of St. Joseph’s , Lodge to mind their own business arid leave .women to attend to the affairs of the kitchen.— I am, &c., I R. H. Bakewlel, M.D. '