Dean Hovell's Address.

Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1894, Page 2

Dean Hovell's Address.

— • '■•'■". '■'■ VJIOSe At the annual meeting of the,. Cathedral parish at Napier, the motion against the Divorce Extension Bill was unanimously adopted. -~"~ Vr Dean Ho veil, in his address, said : — Although I haye^-^ibeeidi'^a resident in this ...^qntr^;-*lo|^aj^iy twenty years, and haye b^eftpog^ged during, the whole of tbit%in^^ ministerial work, I fii^'^jjfc^Br witnessed so much povetfjr iSnd distress before as has beeij^brjpughfc under my notice during the pastAliix months. It has been my painfal^ot to watch famished meni/;j(^feg ravenously on a number of Jo^ftsi|ttna lately. A For people taAbe A^n *^tual want of food, in a country like-liNew Zealand, which carries & poptifetlDn at the present time of merely 70^|00 souls, betokens something .radically wrong* Food and shelteri iqr^tbe hungry and. homeless' shqiaiqAjbe available in New Zwrtand;* andAtbe country will suffer humiUatioli ;and disgrace and loss if the matter Is hot attended to with a little greater cai*e. For a person to be found lying dead of want and neglect . behin,* an xjut-? house in New Zealand while -at -thY same time her preachers proclaim the doctrine of a Gospel for the poor and her legislators -overflow, with eloquent liberalism, awakens thbugh^a) which are not conducive to repose I upon such nights as we A have .been experiencing lately.— Press Assopiast. I tion. .-._*..■:■ *. .A .-■;. " : ". *,,.,•