CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY INDIGNANT.
By Telegraph—Own Correspondent. Weuixgtox, Thursday, Captain Barry, tlio renowned lecturer, lias received a terrible shock. Tired of lecturing and having exhausod the money voted by Parliament last year, he presented another petition this session, with the result tlmt lie has been informed that he has no claim against tbo Colony; that the £SO previously voted was to enable him to get into an Old Men's Home, and that any further assistance must bo in the form of Charitable Aid, . The Captain is indignant. Such a reply to a Colonist of sixtysovon years standing—who has been four times Mayor of Cromwell; an immigration lecturer and who rode on a whale's baclyjpl received a letter from the Queon; ho considers a flagrant insult, Chavitablo aid he spurns | lecturing wont pay i he has abandoned his projected trip in quest of mineral treasures to the King Country, and he now demands light employment ill his declining years, from tbo Government. Ho has written to tho Colonial Treasurer, aud if |iis request is not complied with, tho Colony and tho world >vill ring out tho story of his wrongs
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5110, 23 August 1895, Page 2
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189CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRY INDIGNANT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5110, 23 August 1895, Page 2
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