PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2567, 13 September 1884, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

[united press association,]

Wellington, September 11. An information has been laid against a man named Dooley for brutally illusing one of his children, a little girl seven years old. After the information was laid, two of the corporation officers rescued her from the inhuman father, who was beating her with a heavy strap with a big buckle at the end. The child’s body was a mass of cuts, bruises, and sores.

September 17. Dooley, for ill-treatment of a child, was sentenced to four months. Warded, R.M., said he had examined the child and found the body a living masa of bruises, both thighs being as black as ink. He regretted that he had no power to order the man to receive such a flogging as (he child bad been subjected to. He would have had great pleasure in so ordering it. During the passage of the Tui from Foxton, about 70 pigs, which were on dock, were washed overboard during the heavy weather, and some of the 200 sheep which were in the hold were suffocated ; and in order to save the remainder of them the hatches had to be kept open, which added to the peril of the vessel.

A deputation from the N Z. Rifle Association waited on Ballance to-day and asked him to place .21000 on the estimates as a vote in aid of the next meeting of the association. Ballance stated £250 had been put on the estimates by the late Government, but the deputation pointed out that this sum was too small. Ballance said he would use his best endeavours to have £SOO placed on the estimates.

Auckland, September 11. Mrs Mary Smith, wife of a seaman who arrived by the Waihora from Dunedin, was assaulted in broad daylight in Western Park by four lads, who threw her down and robbed her of her purse and money. Three are arrested.

While scraping the paint off the side of the steamer Triumph in the graving dock, a man named Thomas Keichler was thrown off the staging, which canted and precipitated him 30 feet to the floor of the dock. Two others, Robinson and Onsley were also thrown off, but they held on to the side of the vessel till rescued. Keichler was picked up in an unconscious state, and died in the hospital last night.

September 12. A twelve hours’ walking match is arranged between Hendry and Stephenson for £2OO a-side.

Timaru, September 11. Two men named Bedman (father and son) were charged at Waimate with having in their possession counterfeit coins with intent to utter the same. The case was adjourned. The son is a letter carrier in the post-office, and attempted to pass a sixpence smeared with gold paint for a half-sovereign. A search warrant brought to licffit something like dies in Bedman’s house.