SERIOUS STABBING CASE AT ONEHUNGA.

Evening Star, Issue 4069, 11 March 1876, Page 2

SERIOUS STABBING CASE AT ONEHUNGA.

The correspondent of the ‘Southern Cross” writes oh 29ih February :-“ An nil but fatd <if stabbing occurred on Monday evening a* - - Onehn ga. It aroae a quairei. The firemen belonging to th • Ladybird, m w lying at the wbaiv, nad lefs the eh p owing. to a reduction of wages ffom Id 2 to LlO and some ftcsh-bamU had been engaged. Amongst theai was a Corsican, named Antonio Mateo, who, in co mpany with onoth r, was about t* piocced on boaid about 8 o’clock, when met two of the old hj inds It appears these comrr.euot d the quarrel by saying, ‘ Hero is one of the LlO hands,’ Words and a scuffle ensued. Mb'co drew his shornh knife and plunged ic into the breast of one of his ■ ppc-nents, Ho then tried o e cape, bus ho was well * round d up ’ till Const abb? Green , camn down and secured him. Ti,e knife, cove: ed with blood, wa i afterwards p rked up. The wounded man sitterivar.ls staggered into i. ardingtou’s bar, aud was quickly attended by D. Z nzan, who dressed the wou-.d. The in fe wvs used with g- eat force, p. netrating the chest and pas&ii g vety ckse to tl.e 1 eart, . The bleeding was oqusideiable. _On the wounded man, Jatrus W illiainsoji, V eing taken to the hospital, it was so, n s en th t the»e wa< but sma l chance for h;s recovery. It was deemed advisable to. take thu depositions of th; wounded man. which was done. .