WHO IS THE FRIEND OF THE SCANDINAVIANS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 70, 30 August 1879, Page 2

WHO IS THE FRIEND OF THE SCANDINAVIANS.

!i TO THE EDITOB. ■■ \ ■'

Sib,— l see by the paper that Mr. Halcombe has taken credit to himself for being a great- benefactor to us Scandinavians. Now my motto is " give honor where it is justly due," and consequently if we owe any grati:. tude at all it is to Mr. Snelson, and not Mr. Halcombe. It is quite true that the latter genfclbinanvwas the means of sending us ; to Manawatu. Right youare,:Sir ; but what way did we land here, why like so -hay" sheep, dumped out on the side of the line, with only a large whare to accommodate twelve families, y And then yrb&t about the, stores, -why they were left : atj Fojcton, and were it not that MJ*.; Snelson gave the food out of his shop, some of tlie families would have starved. What about poor Mrs. Blixts' clothes that she got eighteen months afterwarjds.when they, were And what about Mr. Ha_co_a.be ,ti*yi_-g to do us, out of .^ thirty; acres,, saying that' forty acres were too ' touch, and that ten was .quite, sufficient. Did any of you ever know Mr. Snelson to refuse a favor that was asked; of him,„and f will we forget the man who always befriended /us, witlvbuthaving a point to gain thereby. I will not-' beheve it, but rib '; matter who may come -forward Mr. Snelson will ge. the vote of Skakdia.