POVERTY IN THE BUSH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4181, 2 August 1892, Page 2

POVERTY IN THE BUSH.

Sad 'Case of Destitution:

[From the Pahiatua Star,]

A most revolting case of poverty and neglect was brought under the notice of tho police on Wednesday by Mrs O'Brien, of Wakeman-stieet. Four little girls, children of Thomas Hughes, who at one time kept the Post oflics boarding-house, have for some time been living in a roughly* built, wretched-looking tenement, between Knight's buttery and Mr O'Brien's, in oharge of a woman named baunders, with whom Hughes had for some time cohabited. On Wedr nesday t])is- woman informed Mrs Q'Briei} that she was going away, and requested her to take charge of one of thg children, and to give the others, whom s|je proposed to leave looked up in the house, nn allowance of bread and dripping and a drink of water—which it seems was tbe only thing in the shape of food in tho-house—at intervals. Mrs O'Brien, on learning tbe horrible state of filth and neglect in which the unfortunate chiltjrei} wep, at once made Constable Op'opejr aiyate of tfigp conflitidp, and he lias in'tjie meantihip hauded'them ovef to tbe'pare pf Hr§ Printer, who nq cjouljt Yj\\\ sge |l)eifl well pared fqf until gome other provision for (heip is made, The state of the children and their wretched home is saidto bealmost indescribable, and as the. poor unfortunate children are almost' without clothes, gifts of old or left-off garments would be ft real act of charity. We commend the suggestion to those of our laijy readers who are always ready to do an act of charity. The woman SaundeKi lejft on • foot for Wootjyillein the poiiring'rain, tiikiug her own child with her,'