Before and After.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 323, 11 July 1889, Page 3

Before and After.

[to the editor.] Sib,—l have waited some time expecting tha some of the many who have been benefited by,tend have helped themselves through, Mr Allan McDonald, and were better able to defend him than I am (supposed to be his friends), to raise some sort of apology for him, or protest against the very mean letters that have appeared in your paper. But a few months ago his advent to Poverty Bay from Wellington or elsewhere was heralded in the papers after this fashion, “Mr Allan McDonald arrived from Wellington by the s.e. after the close of the session, and was welcomed on landing by numerous friends and admirers.” How different the last time he came back I None of the crowd of needy friends and admirers 1 AU vanished I He is not to be bled I Toy cannot get blood from a stone, He has nothing, He might expect us to lend him something. That or cool indifference was the feeling shown by his so-called friends. I might go on and tell you what might have been done if he had bere amongst his old acquaintances one genuine friend, but will not. I know some tew here in poor circumstances that showed some feeling towards higi in his reverses, although unable io help him,' Bqt to come back to joux enlightened Christian correspondents who wished to see Mr McDonald stopped from having any chance of recovering himself. Do they imagine they would hava been paid if they bad stopped him going ? Not so ; the longer he stayed here, the less chance they had of ever receiving anything. They might get paid now, I hope so. ngt for their sake, but for his own fto clear bis name, one who, when he had anything, never turned a deaf ear to any needy beggar, no rpatter haw clothed,— I am, *c.| usa Who Nrvhb Received a Favob,