A Painful Case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 111, 18 April 1883, Page 2

A Painful Case.

fPatea Mail.), A very painful case of destitution has ust come prominently to light. At he back of a brick kiln, on the roadside *&f the bridge, lives a woman and her clldren. The structure which shelters ttyn/ and which is the onjy place % wU»h they understand the word .'Home,' is a miserable affair, A few slabs roujUy pat together, and covered with old : r)ri,fbrm three sides of the building, the birth consisting of a. side 'of the kiln. Fireplace there is none,' and 1 the' crack* and crevices are large enough to. admitpiercing blasts of wind/ and torrents if rain. Inside this, building the wretchiJnesß is even more complete. No bedtlead, and scarcely an article of cowjnop age ; on the ground an old mafibrag, \nd lying on it 'the womaorand a new-boti childi Buch:was the p»'« tion of aflFaVg m this brick kiln hut m the 1 early hdirs bit yesterday! ' inxprning' Kind neighboars- did what; they could to feed and comfort the woman, and are deserving bf :c ptaise. : The child died during the day } and it wai rumoured the child had boeti mor^danjiJ, bnfc there is not the slightest foundation for that rey port. Dr Croft went down at the Magistrate's request, and, after exami* nation) gave a certificate of death. The husband of the woman has just come out of gaol, where he has been serving threa months for vagrancy, , and al« together the surroundings of this case appear to be of a particularly, painful nature: .- . ■-, ...: ; .; -:. Ul . -\ , ■-, „, . ■