INTERPROVINCIAL.
(UNITED PBESS ASSOCITIOST.) Dunedin, October 23. The City Council has been petitioned by fifty-six public school teachers of the city to erect public baths, on the grounds that these are a pressing necessary for the health and vigor of pupils attending the schools. At the Police Court to-day "William Edwards, the well-known pedestrian, was charged with assaulting a boy named John Miles during the forty-eight hours 1 match with Scott. Edwards was notpresent,butwas represented by counsel The boy depos-d he sang put to Scott, " Go it, Joe," and to Edwards, " He's beat you." Edwards when he next came round, struck witness m the face with his clenched fist. His Worship expressed the opinion that the assault was a cowardly one; and- that people who like the defendant took part m the pedestrian competitions should not be so thin-skinnecLas to take offence at expressions of approval" or otherwise by the public assembled. The defendant would be fined £5 and coßts, m defftult a month's imprisonment. A challenge ha-i been issued by David McEwan to walk Scott twelvd hours for £5 or £50.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 276, 25 October 1883, Page 2
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182INTERPROVINCIAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 276, 25 October 1883, Page 2
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