A HORSEWHIPPING CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2689, 20 November 1882, Page 4

A HORSEWHIPPING CASE.

fPEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, November 18. C. C. McMillan, nephew of Sir William McArthur, and managing partner in the firm of McArthur and Co. here, was severely horsewhipped in Queen street today by a man named Cornewall, who has been engaged in the island trade, and who, it is stated, the firm sold up. At ten o’clock C. C. McMillan, senior partner of the firm of McArthur and Co., was walking down the street, and had reached the verandah ox Knight’s, a fruiterer at the nppor corner of the Theatre Royal block, when he was assaulted by a man with a horsewhip, who proceeded to administer vigorous and resounding blows about McMillan’s body. After several sharp cuts the assailant tripped McMillan up, and ho fell on the pavement, the blows with the riding whip still falling fast and furiously on his head and neck, until T. Phillips, compositor, rushing in with another passer-by, put a stop to the affray. It was ascertained that the person who committed the assault was a man named Cornewall, a trader wallknown at Samoa and throughout the South Sea Islands. Upon rising McMillan informed the people standing by that the assault had arisen out of business transactions, connected with the island trade, while Cornewall on receiving the whip hack from Phillips, who had wrenched it from his hand, remarked that if he only knew the facts he would have assisted instead of stopping the horse-whipping. Cornewall then walked away, while McMillan, after vainly looking round for a policeman, walked hack to the warehouse to remove dust from his clothes, and afterwards went round to the police station, with the object of laying an information. One cut of the whip had left, an inflamed ruax-k about his face, and he was breathless from the violence of the assault. The whip used was an ordinary riding whip, and the blows were struck with the thin end. There does not appear to have been any altercation whatever prior to the assault, hut whether it was premeditated and Cornewall had quietly waited the appearance of his victim, or was committed on the spur of the moment, is not known. Cornewall arrived here from Fiji a month ago by the Taiaroa, where he had a law case with McArthur. It is stated that Governor De Veaux, of Fiji, has recently gone to Samoa, in H.M.S. Diamond, to investigate certain allegations arising out of the transactions of Cornewall i'and this firm. Cornewall was in the afternoon arrested on a warrant for the assault, hut immediately released on bail, Messrs Linabury and Fenton, merchants, being securities.