PAUPERS AND VENISON.

Waikato Times, Volume XLI, Issue 3344, 2 December 1893, Page 4

PAUPERS AND VENISON.

,4 a meeting of. the Kingston .Board of Guardians th'e clerk stated he had received a letter from the assistant town",, clerk, . announcing tliat the j Mayor of Kingston [had forwarded to the workhouse for the use of the.inmafes, a fat buck, received by him from the 'Office of Works, 011 i behalf of the .Queen, according. to;an ! ! ah'cient ; custom, — The Rev! J. Onley r : A ,; what^ v ]VTf Clerk ?—The .Clerk: A buck, sir. But the' master says be will not know what/to' do with.it when he gets it.—Mr Onley,: ! suggest that' the assistant 'town clerk be written : to, suggesting that the buck should not be sent until the next meeting of / the . board. I think the members will then ap- : preciate lit. .» (Laughter). The master says he, can hardly give it : to the initiates, and ; he. .could' not give it ,to the sick^—Mr Gnley, Certainly not'; there's, no better body to come to with it than a Board .of - Guardians. .'(Renewed laughter)rp-Mr Hatch asked /: if any jelly Lad been sent with the ' buck, ' and the clerk, amid some;, laughter, replied in the negative.—Mr Hatch : 1 Because I don't f think the inmates i could , eat' *it without 1 jelly. I (iiaiightor.)—After - som6 -further conversation, t: in T the course of which several., guardians saidvthey really did not what to do ; with the present," the chairman asked whe.ther. .they should vrite back and 1 refuse it.—Several members (at-.once) . Oty/nojiiio.A —The, chaifrnanVThen what shall we do with it,—Mr Austin": Leave it to the'maste'r to%;the ; , 1 Best'he can!— 1E Mr Onley: I moveiliat ! ,;Jthf be accepted, with .the thanka of tlie jßoard." Sufficient unto the :;day |is the good or feyil'thereof.'''? iAfter" ;a long''pause- 1 - r '*the ? 'carried.

' The .dilemma ;in which the Kingston Board 'of--Guardians found ;t h msel ib f j \vas fxrliedf f w really enough to induce an apoplectic' jßunible. . ♦ Fancy .. an ; inmate—a, Jpfluper. livinifi; jexpense of the idistrict —eating the Queen's ownv.enison ! vThe master< rsaidr \'/ he couidliardly give it to the inmatesf Of course,; have taken to dropping in to Windsor Castle to lunch,-'and the Local Government Board.-.would have 110 rest till turtle soup was added to the /dailyi dinner. Mdesf if Wee you begin to tivat a pauper as though,, he had ; the; same kind lof palato as other people where would 1 rf Thei only s thing to i? do Was to let offda -fe wij okes,/accept the buck and leave the problem. of it|, disposal <J tc|"j)e settled afterwards; doubt 'tlie noble beast will be given ,ut n noticed .in ;t lie,., vvorkhou so,,stable*, liowover, we have got one more .(definition 1 1 ofJa%aujferfy .lie- is a' person who can hardly eat venison