THE POOR OF LONDON.
■ -&■ ■ - ; (Auckland Observer.)
Considerable sensation has been created in London by recent revelations as to the dwellings of the. poor. Sir 0. Dilke has been investigating the subject, and has discovered the very worst hovels in the metropolis are owned—by whom 'does the reader think? Not by grasping Jows, not by avaricious skinflints of money lenders, but by the vestrymen of the swell English churches, These men possess •the power of preventing parish authorities from setting the law in motion to Bweep'a.way the unwholesome hovels and rookeries, and thoy exercise it. Many of these wretches who fatten on the miseries of the ; 'poor,'are distinguished' members of Church Missionary Sooieties, and clamour loudly for the conversion of the poor benighted niggers, many of whom are infinitely better off than the pooi of London.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1688, 17 May 1884, Page 2
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135THE POOR OF LONDON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1688, 17 May 1884, Page 2
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