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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 498, 22 April 1881, Page 2

We nre pleased to find tli.it ruffianism stands ft chance of being energetically put down in Akaroa. A gentleman who had been exercising the privilege usually claimed by the British husband of "hammering " the wife of his bosom, was lately sent to gaol without the option of a line. The decision appeared greatly to surprise the aforesaid British husband, who evidently expected that r. fine of. five shillings would .settle the affiiir. On the last court day another cowardly wretch had an interview with His Worship. I his fellow had gone to his daughter who has for some time been earning her own living, and demanded money. On the girl answering (hat she had none, her father knocked her down and kicked her. This gentleman has been before the Court on more than one occasion, but as His Worship remarked he has prudently refrained from laying his hands on a iwan, and confined his attentions of that nature to women. Cases of this nature make one feel inclined to regret the abolition of the whippingpost. "Four dozen " would be such adelightfully appropriate punishmentWe would remind woman-beaters and the Bench that, though the Legislature has in iis wisdom fixed the punishment for the offence much lower than that for picking an applf , , yet thiit fourteen days is by no means the maximum penalty. In refeiviico to this case, we consider Mr West Chamberlain is to be congratulated on having taken the necessary steps to bring the —well we suppose wo must call him a man —to justice.