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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 21, 14 September 1883, Page 18

m ' Says the New York Tribunes " Broadway Lounger " incidiEtaTTy in Irs chatter "Judge Gedney tells me that en the first of this month he signed no less than two hundred and fifty warrants of dispossession against poor tenant* His district includes many blocks of the most squalid variety of tenement-houses, and he has fully as much unpleasant work of this kind as any of his judicial brethren. The first of May is, of course, the heaviest field-day of the year for such business, but there are generally at the beginning of every month at Jeast one hundred warrants granted. And to those who fret about the minor miseries of life, no more wholesome cure could be administered than an enforced attendance in a district court on such occasions. The lowest depths of misery are sounded. Judge Gedney says too, that in the worst cases the suffering is more generally caused D.y misfortune than by idleness or dissipation. A man gets a felon on of -v* • ' I lch kee P a hira at home until hia savings are gone and srhi« -? e^ S BTe j n the P a ™shop, and then his children fall sick tL *Z l S> a - nd th l agent of the house > under instructions from fo?th?w^ 18 Per £ aps in Eur °P c himself, won't wait tor tue rent, and serves him with a summons. "