CORRESPONDENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7417, 31 May 1902, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

' . - , .•..■; " an appeal. „ .. .-[: : -h- : >. TO TSB XDIXOB. - ' . :. '- V> "-■■ Sir,— l am very- anxious to receive feeip from the public for a distressmg caM ot / poverty. It is impossible to give detattt .- in tie paper. I most ask peopla to tara^ : me. I can only say that it is a woman of good: birth and good bringing up wboli^ f or a time ordy 2 I believe, -overwhelm**! with poverty. A hard -winter is <*§£(&£ upon us, amd> to shield and ehelterfjflpi woman and four little ones for * few- w<wli will need, I calculate, «jg£t shillings J» week. Can I ask for that, amount for in* next six months. I can give your n'ttrtand that of the Rev R Dunnage of Belfast, as guaranteers ol my good faith. '.. / B. W. CUNNINGT^&: : JP.S.— Of coarse th* eight •billingi .# week is to be added to what Jjie worn** already obtains. *_ THE CORONATION CELEBRAHONa . ' i so in xorroß. ■ .'...„-•-'.. '.*. ' Sir,— Do we realise the importance of our Coronation celebrations? Are we prepared^ . to celebrate them in a fitting manner? The report In your paper states that the Lyt-. . telton Borough Council, in the excess of iti loyalty, has granted £60, the full measure of . the generositjr of the most liberal and 'progressive borobgh, and the most important port in the south of New Zealand. Littla Gisborne grants £200; Lyttelton, witji it» vast chipping interests, gives £50. .■..■£*■. our Imperialism bees to our disadvantagef I say emphatically no. We have done our./ shore in. the present crisis, and with what . result? Was Mr Seddon known abroad.be-, „ fore? How is it that New Zealand, a flnwlL dot only at the other end of the globe, is - now such a household wordj and the sub- ; ject of so much talk and attention through- . out thocivifißed world? Let us rise to .the. dignity of our position. Tj& vs wmftober^.--we are about to oelebrate the crowning pithe head of the Empire,- of which w*,a»' but an atom; thus maintaining that high, degree of patriotism andl loyalty which, by the means of our Wood and, treasure, we have done so much to preserve.— J I am, etc s AN OLD BESIDENT. Lyttelton, May 20. ■