An Amusing Scene

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 10 January 1888, Page 3

An Amusing Scene

At isfc' -^jp^ptafs ; &>ad.i Board! meeting on Saturday last considerable' conversaiicaai 'dfecifieiott, whifch was not without' j m^ numerous; aspects, wa& Iwild .aneDJt.ithe for additional «htfritable ! aid - from » woman iaf undergoing six montni' ! in ;i duran^ yUel , One of the reasons 0 tli^ap|ilkant ; kad 'alleged for requiring f^h»r. relief was that . het children had.- no.- )>oots. One OPfsrden T remarked that his Jichild-^ ran w ere .going ..^barefooted? at" the < present time*; and aeemed to prefer it. Anyway the.<meetmg> did nqt : cbnßider this simple; fact mUch4xatdßnip at the present tiflfe o| tlie : Vut strpngly criticised the rarcumst^hbe of an. able bodied nian Wing sentenced tp euoh a Jong ierm of incarceration for a .comparatively venial ofEence, committed by many pergons-wvury ~Uay~WMr'impunity,: whileuhifl famUy Btatving or relying solely on charity. It was seriously suggested that 4^i» i Minister of Justice be appealed^to, 1 asking that' the prisoner,' who ! bad been' about^ two months m gaol, be-thraihed, and cent homtf to work for his .family. Warden Bull actually ."made two attempts to #rite a reablufion somewhat; to that effect, bat seemed puzzled now to couch-rfc- iit--wriftcißtifly~effectife termßptnd at last gave it, up. To a. question- as to the nature .pf the.crifnathe m^>^ld^^r%ty^|;W answer was-^^^S^einTß^*' *' ii 1 reply which drew forth from , another member of the meet^ng : 'tb^ noialt^gelher unreaßonable^j4er^~"'^o^n|can