FELONIOUS- ASSAULT AT ONEHUNGA.

Auckland Star, Issue 539, 2 October 1871, Page 2

FELONIOUS- ASSAULT AT ONEHUNGA.

'.Ghau^es Brinley, a journey?iiau baker, lately working in .'Onehunga, was charged, at t\io Onehunga Resident Magistrate's Court, by ,Bliza Boyd; with assaulliivg her with, a felonious intent.. The complainant, Eliza Boyd, deposed : I was in service at the Thames/ My laistresa a&d I : came, up to Auckland on Thursday last, and then she: gave me permission to Visit my. relatives in Onqhunga.. My age is between-.. 14 and 15 years. Iwalked from Auckland, and reached Ohehungaiabout eight o'clock? and just as I turned the corner from Queen - street towards the Catholic chapel prisoner met and spoke to me, asking me where I was going., He threw a paper parcel which, he was .carrying over a: fence. I. told him X. was :r^oing to. Windsor's, which was very, near, ~Heasked to■: go with me. I said, " ifp." He asked where I came from, arid I told him th« Thames. He then caught hold of me and threw me down. I managed to jgpt}up ; jind screamed out. He then put his hand over my mouth, and laid if I would come d^Wri a littlo further he would giv# me some money. I refused to go with him, "when ha threatened to split my head open with a ging'erbeer bottle he had got ill his pocket. ;This occurred close by where I 'i^i'^i^f^^.lJ.^iil^^rite^So'geTi over the fence into "Windsor's" place". Prisoner then lifted me ug, .under, his" arm, and when I screamed output his liatid on my mouth and carried. m« down the-road lin-l across the rail-way-—under a atone'#ftll;r He. then threw me down- and, attempted the felonious assault. Complainant says she" repeatedly tried to scream out, but was prevented by prisoner's hand her mouth. Just then some one passeSfa along the railway, and I managed to call out, "Young man, young man," tvheu the person, came; up, and proved to be Air. Robert Bycroft, and prisoner ran off. It. was a bright,;moonlight .night, and I am certain prisoner was the man, who assaulted ™o- — Robert Bycroft deposed: I was returning home along the railway about ninb o'clock. [ heard a female voice crying, "Young man." .The voice was rather stifled. I went to the place, and believe complainant was the person I heard calling. I heard some one running away. At first she could hardly speak.—Mr. GKllman deposed to having'heard two screams, which were quickly stopped. He listened, but hearing no more, took no further notice. He v. as in his own garden, about three hundred yards from where complainant stated she first called out.—Daniel Nielson, a butcher, deposed to supplying prisoner with four pounds of steak on that evening, and wrapprd it up in paper.— Constable Greene, deposed to taking the prisoner into custody, also to finding a parcel of meat, done up in paper, at the spot pointed •out by complainant, whore she said it had been tin-own by prisoner, The prisoner, when arrested, hid in the breast-pocket of his coat a gingiu'beer bottle containing some spirits. When complainant came to him, her lipa were bruised and bleeding, and. she appeared in a very excited state.—Prisoner was fully committed for trial.—Sergeant Pardy conduoUd the prosecution.

T I allow* every j genfK ; I a ment |\ . Volu amuJ taker '•*? j incov teer chai 1 Hew mon tha< trim ixiai bett also rnoi tboi eve mv ■ ' at "w St - ' 60 in ai ir f( B* i - ■■■ ■ '^SpsHß ' ■ , ■ ■•..,,■■ ■ ■>- - >i •..■;. ■--■:. -or of the Ef^Mv/Sril. >= &iB S/-3?wf5 ttJJ>tw2twy iV>wj of September!' states " th?;;. :*. tirueiy word' comeS'to us from Mr- ilechi, respecting tbe value anSiiarmlaiS' ness of sawage. as it is used upon Hr. Hopi Breton's farm, Essex." Had all Hr.Mecbi'l letter been given, -without comment (of " timoly word,") I should not hare ftqibled you with ray viewa of what is thtetru* , " timely word" wHicb. comes to us m 'it. Haring by me the latter, as publish||jiE England, I come toil very different coaclnabn to what I should by the misleading and : partial statement of the Evening Sews —for no notice is taken of the fact tliat the BomfoH- :

ites have had alnust to re-construct their j drainage system, s» as to send it tbrougji | 18-inch iron pipes fcr 3J miles, to pufchasei ', right for that purpae in all the properties ft \ passes through to % large reservoir aCtM farm, there to erect and maintain it at tin certain expense of £'00 a-year, an engine to pump it up 25 fee', high, besides constant I repairs, supervision, and other concomitant expenses; and al for the magnificent | yearly sum of twj shillings per headiflf | the 6000 inhabitaits of Romford. Thui, j that which Mr. Mcmi affirms to be wortlife ; per head or Id. per ton, and for the farmer'to lay down pipes at his own cost to convey it to his own Jand, by © doing, the farmer will i have to pay at leastfour times as much as Mr. Hope Breton pays for it at his farm. Itu plain that " value" la a sotnething not understood by the Ronfordites and by Mrv£: Breton as it is by Mr. Mechi, and it shpula m a caution to us, for \l Mr. Mechi is right, and I have numerous lettets of his in my possession showing his calculations which almost would prove Mr. H. Br<ton could afford oeriiij £2000 a year more. Tie Evening News <a»J well wontler, and exclaia "Valuable!" ,I,<to not undervalue the con^nience of making water the means for removing this nuisance, but, sir, there looms in th* future the' alraori certain result of a continuous stream of blact sewage saturating the earth. The taking * 3 £ miles ere a piece of ground fit for the pni* pose, or some other cause, is vt*y significant. There is also the testimony of many scientpo men to the deleterious effects of sewage vrKen exposed on the surface, especully in hot weather. But what if they do B*y?t|urt;?| fhl Eveywig- News states it is harmlta*^ fhff men working in it all day are perfectly healthyi and drink the purified water from Bomford. What a mistake the Romforditea hafvs*£* to give Mr. H. Breton the black »e^Fm, such a cost to themselves. And I tQV"m|i Evening "News, to be true to itself of cImW i as a " timely word" to us, should give »™ public of Auckland a leading article old» harualessness of black sewage in its colulpfc It has only to prove that to allay the gm« anxiety pervading the public mind atftW present time. Mr. Mechi also g^^ another timely word, but it perhaps did not suit the views of the Evening News, He sßj« the question is arising whether the flood and sewage waters of towns should not .be separated, and presumes that it would depfW" upon the nature of the soil to which' il' '*t0 be applied. On the solution of that question, the correct method, and how to do it to the greatest advantage to the ratepayers, depend. Closely connected with that question; « another, whether is earth the proper element to deal with the nuisauce, or is water^ When doctors disagree, who shall decide. " I will," says th© Evening News I—l •n» ) f °-»

Farnell, Oetobw 1,1871.