SHOOTING " THE LOWER ORDERS."
New Zealand Tablet, Rōrahi X, Putanga 489, 25 Hereturikōkā 1882, Page 23
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SHOOTING " THE LOWER ORDERS."
Thr following letter has appeared in the Times : Sir,— Having lately perused in the Times a remarkable letter written by the wife of an Irish landlord, in which she states that whenever any member of the " lower orders " approaches her and her husband, she immediately cocks her revolver, and holds it in readiness to shoot "on the lt>a->t suspicions movement." Might Ibe permitted to inquire whether a person who is so ready to murdeVa fellow-creature at whatever her excited imagination may construe into " a suspicious movement " should be given a license to carry firearms ? J This lady, whom I blush to call my country-woman, and whoro husband has probably lost a portion of his rack rents —doubtless tbe cause of her new-born hatred to the Irish— should come and economise in Ameaca, where she would find to her astonishment that it is just as illegal to murder a " member of the lower orders " as to murder a m-jmber of the upper ones.— Yours faithfully. Fanny Vesey Pabnell, Ironsides Park, Bordentown, New Jersey, U.S.A., June 4.
