To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sih,—There are a great many persons leaving this place for the purpose of going to Melbourne who are leaving their wives behind them. I shall be obliged if you will allow me to warn them, through your columns, that they have no right to expect that any assistance should be given to their wives in their absence. The wives can, in all cases, prevent their husbands deserting them, by applying to the Magistrates: if they do not do so they must take the consequences, and have no right to expect any aid from charitable or other sources in case they should be reduced to distress. lam aware that many are in the expectation that tradesmen will give them credit till their husbands return. Tradesmen and storekeepers, however, would do well to exercise great discretion as to whom they will trust. Yours, &c. J. E. FITZGEEAIiD.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 85, 21 August 1852, Page 10
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