A. Heartless Remark.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 134, 17 November 1884, Page 4

A. Heartless Remark.

! i: .: :.,:.-, ■■■^ - a-. ■ n. ■<■■<■■■■'■ ■:•• -.-{. ! Ah : esteemed' lady correspondent' sends jus ( 'Pall !; Mall GC/cSr) the're-; port of ail inquest , lield* last week in ' Sh'effi'elc^ which lias not unnaturally excited* 'her . indignation. I'lie,': story/, is a .very one.,, A weakly little,, boy.bf. ten^ja suttfererirqm.lbroflcljitjs,,, v ho, ; £rom lus. dejlcacy. and affectionate disposition,, jthe !f pet;: J o| bis. pargnts (vfarkirjg people m; the neighbourhood, ,o£ ; Sheffield)^ • drowned i |iimsctivf c A; case of suicide at the age of 'ten ii)at^Tally.'.< excited !" attention^ • knd the; coroner^ < took 1 to frelievfe his" feelings by condemning : tlie;^rents.; v it' was'shilwii at the inquiry that the little ielloV had cobMpd s;ui6Me KalfVild' grief aflcl 'alarm at the; illness^ of ' pis mo(Hel;!; "Oh ( mapima, , mam-.' ny* ■'.!*! He hadf'exqlainr ed piteously , -a,s Jie stood weeping by the bedside, ( V\i you, don't get better 1 7 will flrowia rr.ys.elf 1 ; And , a few, days after Jh,ei was as good as his ,word ..Upon-/ this the ; coroner rated the parents . for spoiling stheir boy; > " You should have .'given himi a good hiding," said ' he m his vigorous 'vernacular ;" the 1 boy has been spoiled, ?nd petted, f arid pampered until 1 he did not know jwhat to dd *w ith himself ;'' ' and sa forth. Considering that, the, jiaretits ; Shad just lost thai fhe" jonly caiise of the''poj6r boy's act 'was' an'^gopy of apperahensibn lest his mother should die^ there .will b^e many , jvvjj^ .w'j.lt sympathise, with ojqv cqrr^s 7 , jpondent, wftq ; m . . sending ,us ,, ,the , itycts, j[juiptty,aclds: -'1,, should lite ; jto ;: hold an inquest an that coroner." -