Our Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 118, 29 March 1890, Page 3

Our Wellington Letter

SHE BURTON GAMBLING AFFAIR. LIBEL ACTION AGAINST THE EVENING POST, SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY. Opeom our own correspondent.) Wbm.is«ton» M-oreb 27. The Burton gambling oase has at last - fceen concluded,, and has resralted in the •delinquent Wing fined j£SO for his little 3game There were several shady statements made Which would not bear the light of day, ani hard swearing was a feature of. the case. However-, the police -^managed -to secure -aii important witness Who. testified that he -made tbe padded >dice doic to Burton's order, which same ; box trie defendant load sworn that he did not own. 'This fink in the chain con- j iected the whole affair, and being backed. <up by the fact that Burton had to pay £2 ■ 10s per week rent for Iris shop, and that; lie had -only about that amounts worth of: .-stock on hand, anyone with half an .eye. *could see -that some other means must; ihave been resorted to to <4 :pay the piper." , It is satisfactory that the police have out- . witted the clever lawyers, and brought' %uch an offender to justice. The police; -have now laid an information against: Burton, charging him with having com- ' Emitted perjury. ' ! As a sequel to the Nelson breach ofpromise case, in which a Miss Mills se-; •cured .£l5O damages against a Mr flyman ; Hyams, a. commercial traveller -of this: •city, the defendant in the action has now nought the protection of the Bankruptcy ' Court; but whether that will clear him: <of his liability to Miss Mills or not, bas, .yet to be* seen. If t remember rightly aj similar case to this -occurred bete aome' •eight years ago. The defendant, a olerk; then in the Railway Department, sought i to relieve himself in the same fashion, , but it would not: wash, and he was -ordered : to pay 2s 6d per week until the claim was ; satisfied. Patience would certainly be •& "virtue in that case. i One of wyiington's most noted foot- ! te wit, Harry Boberts— whose ; aame is well-known as a cricketer and! footballer throughout the whole coiony, is ; igoing to make it warm for the Evening ! -Post .for having published a report of a ' *umour to the effect that " one of the Poneke Club's most doughty champions" ', claims refers to lurii) had •offered to procure four- of that Club's best -players for another Club at £15 per man ior the season; and which report he asserts iiad seriously affected his social position. 'The aniount claimed as damages is put •down «t j£6os, and it is almost unnecessary to state that the combative Mr Jellicoe is counsel for the prosecution. Last night; whilst walking down Tory atreet, my attention was attracted by a large crowd of people assembled in that thoroughfare, and on my enquiring the treason of the gathering, I was informed that a woman had been stabbed in the neck by her husband, and that ahe was then being attended to "in that ere Ohamist shop," and that "that feller is Tthe chap who did it," my youthful informant pointing to a half-drunken wretch' loitering about with his hands in his pockets and a hang-dog look on his face. His freedom, however, was of short duration, for at that moment the. burly form -of -Sergt. Black appeared around ihe ■corner/ and soori had his man securely handcuffed and conveyed to the lockup. A few minutes afterwards the poor woman , was carried out to a cab arid driven to tha .surgery of AD& Collins, who pronounced the wound a serious one, and ordered the patient to the Hospital. Thee scene during the arrest of the man, and the appearance of the wtiman being carried to the s;ab/ was a very distressing one, some three or four children crying most bitterly Jbr' their mother, and following the cab .for a considerable distance, when they*iwere outpaced and were left— well, worse ! than orphans. The husband has been from his wife for some tame, aad his return piovoked a quarrel. Two roughs, named respectively Drisfxiil (with a few aliases) and King, received bheir deserts at the R.M. Court yesterday for vagrancy, the former receiving sixmonths' and the latter one months' imprisonment, despite their -assurance that ■they were "honorable men." We can "very weii spare a few of that class of "character, Who are becoming too numerous to be pleasant.