A GRIEVANCE.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3006, 3 October 1878, Page 2

A GRIEVANCE.

! (To the Editor of the Evening Star;) . , Sic,—Will you kindly allow, me to ' contradict a false statement which appeared in the Thames Advertiser . on, Monday last, the 30th September, and which has done me an injury. First, he says that I was one of the Joudest who called upon the authorities for employment; in that he is quite right. But as to his other charges, they are as false as himself. It is true that 1 have several children, and that they are motherless; but that is'my misfortune. I have two on the Thames and four in the Orphans' Home at Parnell, and not in the Industrial School, as has been stated; and who are not kept at the expense of the ratepayers. As to his statement of my being seen rolling drunk in the streets, that is also false, and there are plenty of people who can deny it, for I went to Auckland, on Saturday night to see the children, and did not return until Tuesday morning; and as for leaving the children here without food, that is also false, as any of mj neighbors or Mr MoGowau can prove; and that the neighbors did not supply them with food; and as for his talking, that I ought to get black-balled by my fellow-workmen, I think that if he would.; tell them his name he.would stand a very good show of getting tarred and feathered^ > for the same respectable, laborers have more respect for me than to black-ball ? me. Hoping I am not taking up too much of your valuable space, I remain, <fee, John Mobbison.