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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 197, 29 July 1881, Page 4

Vagrant : Acr 1876 Amendment (Hon. Col^ Brett)— Under this Bill it is provided that where any person is convicted of wilfully and obscenely exposing his person in any street, road, or public highway, or in the view thereolf, or in any place of public resort, the Justice or Justices before whom he is convicted may, in addition to the punishment awarded, direct that the offender be once, twice, or thrice privately whipped, subject to the following conditions: — (a.) The number of strokes shall not exceed fifty at each such whipping, and the Court, in its sentence, shall specify the number of strokes to be inflicted and the instrument to be used. (h)tn no case shall such whipping take place after the expiration of six months from the ; passing of the sentence, (c) Ikx all cases where the punishment of whipi ping is inflicted under the authority o|f 'this Act, the surgeon or medical officer of the gaol in Tvhich.the offender is confined shall be present when the said puiiishment is inflicted; and if of opiniojn that the prisoner is not at any time able to bear the whole or any part of the punishment, may order, the infliction \>i the whole or any part to be postponed, and shall send' a report- in writing, staging his reasons for making euchajn o rder, to the Colonial Secretary. | The Hon. Captain Fraser speaking to the Chinese Bill in the Legislative Council said'— The race was one of filthy ''vices and -loathsome diseases^ consequent 1 o^l 5000 years of stagnant .V civilisation. They had been driven. out of Indja 4000 years ago for their hideous and abominable vices and diseases. 'Tfrejv were taking the bread Fronqi Europeaja moufhs. They were so vile that thte germs of disease, not to be killed by boiling water, were to be. found in the vegetables they grew in tU^arrefuse. Bo^lfng oil alone wouid^kill those i germs. jJLet Europeans/ be careful, 1 therefore, of 'easing Chinese gKpwn; cabbage. Chinese would in timq get too strong to be r^stramed if not restrained now. It , yyds so in Honolulu, Vhefe, from a small p9ginning, they had to^come to hold every plantation. Seventy thousandhad lateljp gone to Kashgaria, and carried all jiefoije j them with their own iriade guns^ anjd $,000p000 could "as easily ha?e'gon<L They would soon have entire pbsse'ssiop i of Australia. They were most treacherous, as witness the ' Naseby "niurdef . However, a Chinese had been hung for that, although it was the wrong map (laughter),. the other one having thje benefit of a clever lawyer. His country- ' man, though, to their credit, boycottejd him and cleared him out, and he (tlie j speaker), hoped. he had since cut his throat. The germs of their lbajhsomje diseases were going through &' -circle, the Europeans must be careful or thajy would get them through, their cauliflowers. !