CORRESPONDENCE.
Lambing Down Strangers. [TO THE EDITOIt,]
Sill,—As a stranger and a working man, 1 camo down from tho country on Wednesday last to Masterton after live months* hard work, with £37 in my pocket, thinking to havo a holiday, and naturally of course went to a bote for a liquor. No sooner had I arrived than I was beset by a paok of harpies, who as soon as they found I had money on me became very friendly and would not let me be until I was shouting for them, and myself led away to got drunk, Waking in tho morning, I found I had in that short time been "had" for £l2 in cash, besides paying for shouts. I write this hoping it may be a warning to other men who like myself spend, or aro robbed, of their hard earned wages by a certain set of spielers in Masterton, on the look out for nothing else upon which to livo, I am, etc, A Stranger.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4250, 22 October 1892, Page 3
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168CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4250, 22 October 1892, Page 3
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