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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4925, 5 January 1877, Page 2

A very distressing case was brought under our notice last evening. Two gentlemen living in Te Aro called at this office and stated that a Mrs. Vincent, with six little children, had for the last two nights been houseless, owing to the husband having deserted them, and the landlord of the house in which they had been living having turned them out into the streets with what little goods they could lay claim to. It appears that Vincent is a tradesman, capable of earning 12s. a day, and has an adult son, who has also deserted the woman and young children; and the landlord, we presume finding that his tenant was not a profitable one, turned the woman and children from the house. Thus they were left without home or even shelter. The case is most pitiful, none more so could be imagined, and it is scarcely possible to conceive how any man could have acted so inhumanly as Vincent is shown to have done. For two nights these unfortunate victims to poverty and cruel neglect were exposed to the night air, probably suffering the acute pangs of hunger also, and could look no where for relief. Particular attention is drawn to this case, in the hope that it may result in attracting the notice of the authorities.