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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1893, Page 4

la the matter of unwholesome slums the great citirs of the New World appear to have no advantage over tho^e of Europe. Mi>s de Graffeurifd, special agent of the United States Department of labour states that in the poorest quarters of foreign ■ o'.ties— Whitcchapel in Lindorj, G'asgow, ! Rouen, Nap'es — she has teen no such co-." centratioa of sq islor, filth, airless dark pest-holes, foul closets, and Fiuk?, pu<:h j missing of heman beinca within narrow ; damp, windowless walls as exist in Nexv' | York tenements. " And 1 busy myself r (she adds) "only with workers— women j and children following a recognised occu- | pation while employment oilers or health j permit;' — not with charity cases, the sick, ! the unemployed, the criminal classes. I ' slum ' because wage - earners must j live in the slums " How it fares | with the unfortunate little ones whose i mothers work at the mill is indi- ■ cated by a little aneodrte which Miss | de Graffenried relates. In a hovel one day . she taw a little girl of 9 with five younger j dry toddlers in line before her, weeping ! ]< u fly. She was beating each in turn with a heavy leather strap. "They needs it," explained the tiny guardhn. " Ma, she hollers at 'tm, but I ain't got no big voioe like m\, so I lets go at 'em with the strap t.hrnp timpn a Hnv."

The Oavmru Mail believes that if any action has been taken, as was stated in recent cablegrams, by the bondholders in the way of appointing a receiver it refers tot he a 100,000 loan debentureholders of the Oamuru Harbour Board. Upon that loan, which stands in the position of a second mortgage, no interest has been paid since November, IS91 — 18 months ago Another half-year's interest became payable on the Ut ■ f this rnontb, aud the money not being fortlic ining it id tbe most likely thing to im-.gi' e th-t the bondholders have come to the conclusion that it is about time to briDg mitter? to a head, ard that they have determined to put into operation the power given to thtm to put in a receiver. Any application oj the fcir.d would have to be marie to the Supreme Court of Ntw Zialand, however, and what I/is bctn done jb only cf a preliminary rature. A r ther nice point his be<n raised by frbe Ch&irmin of the Cai.t j rbary Charitable Aid l B ard. Sjme little time ago it was resolved j t > 188UP tick'ts to the recipients of chari- | tiVe rid, so that they c'uld get their meat iS:c, wherever th y liked, the ticket representing a c°rtiin value. Two members of the Board became possessed in the usual cours° of buaine^s of some of these ticket?, wb o i were p-rid. Then the chairman ~n.nt.prl in lc r»~ whpfhf-r f.*iAxr hai\ nnf-. fr»i.

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