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Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 96, 5 April 1878, Page 2

fTIHE BPECIAL attention of the J. Ladies of Wellington and its vicinity is requested to the fact that Mantle Making is now in full operation at TE AttO HOUSE, Cubastreet, under thoroughly efficient management. LADIES' JACKETS Of every description and material made to order At the shortest notice and in any selected style. A perfect fit and superier finish guaranteed. James smith, te aro house Cuba-street, 25th March, 1878.

BISCUITS! BISCUITS!! BltiCUlTo ! ! ! CWHITEHEAD begs to return thanks to . his Customers aud the Public generally for the liberal support accorded him the last eight years, anfl has much pleasure in calling attention to his Biscuits made by the latest Improved at^fc of machinery. A trial solicited. Pflica List : Abernethy biscuits 6d Ginger Nuts ... lOd Water do Gd Nic Nac Biscuits Is Butter do 6d Pearl do Is Pic-Nic do 8d Cracknells do ... 2s Mixed do k 8d Ship's Bread, per Albert Wine do ... 8d cwt. ... j£l2s6d Albert Arrowroot Biscuits 10d N.B. — Shipping Supplied and Contracts taken.

«3" p UKB. «aT T> IFLES. «S-T>KVOLVERS. (Our neio stock of Arms and Ammunition is now complete.) Lamps, Lustres, Gasaliers. Shipments of Latest Designs nowj\o)i view. Fenders, Fire-irons, Fire-guards Bedsteads, Cots. Toilet Waro Coal Vases, Tea Trays, Waiters Cutlery, Electro-plated Waro Hall and Umbrella Stands Bronzod Tables and Flower Stauds Intending purchaser; aro respectfully invited to inspect our New Stock of the j above goods. WM. DA WSON eft Co., ; Iron Merchants aud Ironmongers, i Fj3ATIiBRBTON-STKKET, WELLINGTON.

AMERICAN STOVES LEAMINGTON RANGES. Inspection invited to our new stock, manufactured specially to our orders, to meet the requirements of our customers. Prices low and conveniences great. ROBEttr GA.RDNER & CO., Ironmongers, Latnbton Quay and Te Aro. LOWER HUTT TOWNSHIP. SALE Ox\ TUESDAY, 9th APRIL. THE LAND MART, HUNTER STREET. Liberal terms. 6 per cent, for balance. 7ITR. J. H. WALLACE will be in attendance at the HUTT, ouj SATURDAY, 6th APRIL, to point out the Allotments, which are pegged off and numbered. Egg" Railway on Saturday— Single Fare for | Return Tickets. (Stoetthtg ||trst. FRIDAY, AI'KIL 5, 1878. It is a matter fov rogret that while the demands made upon the funds of the Benevolent Society have considerably increased, the resources placed at its disposal have become very limited. Some people I may feel disposed to scout the idea that any appreciable amount of distress exists in so prosperous a community as this, where wages are high and employment abundant. Those who look below the surface of our social life could tell a different talo. In all large centres of population a certain amount of distress and destitution exist, and Wellington is no exception to the rule. This distress arises from a variety of causes. There are uselesß, helpless, shiftless people in this world, who always, by one means or another, sink into a condition closely akin to destitution. 1 hen there is the distress which comes upon a wife and family when the bread-winner is stricken down by long continued illness, or is removed by death. The>e i 3 also— alas that it should be so — the distress which is endured by women and helpless children, in those cases in which husbands and fathers are addicted to intemperance, and squander in drink the money which should be devoted to the support of their families. In bad cases of this kind the men sometimes fall into crime and get imprisoned, leaving their families utterly destitute. Sometimes they become so lost to all sense of their domestic ties and responsibilities as to abscond from their homes, and leave their families to be supported either by private charity or by the State. A*l these causes combined result in the production of a very appreciable amount of distress calling for instant relief. If any opulent persoo, possessed of benevolent instincts, doubts this, let him take a round of the various back-slums which Wellington possesses, and enquire how the people abiding there contrive to make their living. If he were to do that, the discovery wonld soon be made of more cases of genuine poverty and distress than we like to think of as existing in the heart of a prosperous colonial city. It is in dealing with such a class of cases that the Benevolent Society, for a number of years past, has performed a praiseworthy and useful work in an unobtrusive way. Until lately the Society has been cordially supported by the public, who have given it their subscriptions with no niggard hand. From some cause or other those contributions are not now given quite so readily as before. One reason for this is, we believe, tbat the members of the Temperance bodies and Friendly Societies decline, on principle, to subscribe to the Benevolent Society so long as Mr. Crawford is its Chairman. They put the case tersely by saying: — "Mr. Oraavford, as Chairman of the Licensing Bench, uses all his influence to create drunkenness and destitution by granting licenses to unnecessary public houses; while as Chairman of the Benevolent Society he administers funds for the relief of that very destitution. We regard this condition of affairs as being improper and inconsistent, and we therefore decline to support the Benevolent Society. We prefer, indeed, to distribute our charity through other channels and in our own way." There is much force in this reasoning, but we do not agree with it. It is quite true what the members of these societies say about the inconsistency of Mr. Crawford's position, but even that should not cause them to adopt the extreme measure of refusing to support the Benevolent Society. That Society is a special organisation created to inquire into and relieve cases of distress. Long experience on -the part of the members of tha Committee