POVERTY IN SYDNEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4094, 22 April 1892, Page 2

POVERTY IN SYDNEY.

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TJie Hof.ald reports No less tjian 4J3ounl-fpplpyed' iaej?' sougjit ghflltpf * in Brown's stables, Sydney, w|ipli lliiyo been granted for tb.e' use oi ifestitptp pft at fjigh't. A' yisit tp the plaoe reveals a sad state of affairs existing among those in destitute oiroumstances." On the ground floor, where the horses for sale were sit one time exhibited, and on the first storey, which wbb used for the accommodation of buyers at horse sales, rows after rows of men were observed sleeping in- their clothes—if they could' be called sticli-on tlie bare flooring, jn some pases pn the bare jjaffo, in tjjo majority of instances wjih old news* papers, and in a cases—where the men Jiad been "wore' fortunate—witli sapjjji, fully (igilf of tbe mjep were bqotjesß, (ipd feet' wp p)-p ; tepted wit|) rplls pf newspapers fiei} rgund th,e apklea with pieces of string. TJjey lay' (}lo?ely together, and Siotnei thankful that they did not have hljpding jain beating on tbe,roof, From different parts of the stables could bo heard deep, consumptive coughs, and one poor young fell low was' observed. apparently . near deafh, He bad laid there, it appears, all the day, and an uutuuotied cup of soup was by his side, A few of the healtjiy mta willirlgly gave the sacks they had, 'bo that : Jie might 1 he mofo cotafoitafjle, kii\l ahotfieir ! Vojuht e'erfeh Id sit lly Ijis siqp l: atid' attfijnd' bim during tlippigh't/TBe police 'ji) cijargo of the establishment state that during the time the men have occupied the

building for sleeping purposes- three or four days—not the slightest disorder has ocourred, and that suspected or drunken persons have not been-admitted."'