THE DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.
Our native friends are aware that there is at the present time much distress amongst the working classes in Lancashire and other places in England. Upwards of one hundred thousand persons have been thrown out of employment in the mother country, owing to a great dearth of cotton, the shipments of that necessary article having greatly diminished in consequence of the civil war in America. If there be a large amount of suffering in our world, the human family has not forgotten its sympathies. The nobler feelings of our nature are evinced in many ways,— sometimes by a kind expression, sometimes by a thought, but more frequently by a benevolent action. Not only the English nation, but peoples of other countries, have come forward, by hundreds and thousands, with their contributions for the relief of the famishing poor. The Australian colonies have been moved by the same benevolent motive, and the European inhabitants of
New. Zealand are not slow in assist ins their brethren. We feel much pleasure in publishing a list of contributions from our Maori friends at Puhoi, near Maliurangi, together with an extract of a letter from an European resident in that locality. Extract of letter, dated 12th October, 1862. " I send you a cheque on the Union Bank for 18s., which I l)ave collected Jiere for the distressed operatives, as per annexed list. "You will see that, with'the exception of my -own subscription, the contributions have been madefy Maories of Puhoi. . "On telling the Turiwhati of the distress, lie immediately gave me 2/., and I gave him, at bis own request, a paper to get the other names." The following is the list referred to:—
John Anderson . 1. t. d. .20 0 Turiwhati * i . 2 0 0 Takamai * 0 2 6 Wanatume . . 0 2 6 Ino .... . 0 2 6 Pene Paiulu . . 0 2 6 Turuhira . 0 2 6 Henare Winiata . • 0 4 0 Pita Ngaruaki .*0 1 0 0 Te Pua . 0 i Haria . . " . . 0 i 0 Kawhena . 0 f 0 Piri Parena . . 0 0 6 Total . . £4 18 0
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 15, 16 December 1862, Page 3
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348THE DISTRESS IN ENGLAND. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 15, 16 December 1862, Page 3
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