TREATMENT OF ABORIGINALS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1905, Page 5

TREATMENT OF ABORIGINALS.

IIORE HORRIBLE ALLEGATIONS .<By Cable.—Press Association.— v_opyriglit.> PERTH. February 13. The following is an extract from Dr. Roth"? n;[K)rt on (he trejitnutil of the snoriginals in West Australia: "An aboriginal child 14 yours old is undergoing two years' bard luhonr for alleged isittlckilling. I examined nlm. ii<> icl he was caught by » policeman, who asked if ho lia<l killed cattle, and he said no. The policeman and another m;in then talked together, and mm if] tht>y would Ehoot hJTji. One of them pn,t n cartridge in the rifle and pointed it. at the witness. This frightened him so that he at onc-v said:, "I (li.l kill the bullock. . Hi- was taken with some, other black follows, who alfo, bring frightened, all said th«-y had "Hod bullocks. Thfi policeman put'handcuffs on their ]~.,* nm \ haixis, i,wn of hejug eluiined together by the 100-s. They then c-mpln some more hiack fellows and some gins, and look them away Afterward* the prisoners were taken to the courthouse, but they said m.ihinjr. beeaiw thpy had Iwrri told not tn talk.' The I'm.eistrate did not a >-k thorn whether they had killed bullocks." FURTHER REVELATIONS, IMPRISONMENT OF CHILDREN. THE GOVES.NBIEKTC PROPOSITIONS. ( Received 9.21 a.m. i PKRTH. this day. Mr. George Scoi. gaoler a t Wyndham, Pve evidence before the Roth itoinmis Slon. He stated thai I here were 103 aboglials in the YVvijdh.ini (,'aol. ami pracycally the whole were chanrd with eat-tto-alealiny. 11,,. younger Uiis between «'«venand Iwnlv,. \W« ol«!. \!| received "Dm six m<mti,< t,, tun y,.a,~- imprison**it with hard labour. 'Their idea was mat they were in «. 10 1 for road-niakinfr. r 5 Onl >' the rducat.vl majority got to raw thai lhry arr in gaol for ramrlThe native prisoner?, added the witTiess, are eseefdinglv well behavod. There I "?<; l, °y 1"- year* nlil >~-rvin« nine months f or ki |ii np a ~<,., t< , )nrl ~„,. Jiative Pnsoner, who was unable to do any work. T 1 Was al most in a sUte of collapse. Wbeu received. anil in that condition ft ,if. lm P<»sible for him to bo guilty of *"ung cattle. He died eighteen dayi aftions em? adn,ittM - B y lheir uwn ,- - every native mean': more ™?ey in the pockets of the police. He Jfwed that the squatters an.) thrir cmP%ece did shoot H^tives. ocrmons were preached on Sunday at diSS i Of With regard to the "'sclosures b y the Roth Commission. The W GrS strol >giy ur-ed immediate reTlhTp Dd the Punishmenl of the guilty. ne.Ulonial Secretary states that there i.W« matters with regard to the na, An* * CoUld ,10t be t>alt with now - new AborjVifles P lO recr;on BiiZ would I the first bills introduced next, ■ "• _ Immediately it -was passed reforms would be made. It was that there evils that aeir m remedie d without the aid of a tta-SITS? the exietini? legisla ' Halts a sl c to rectif y certain ittji^ an these now engaging at-