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NZ Truth, Issue 145, 28 March 1908, Page 5

Scandal to women is like tobacco to a man. They inhale it with avidity, puff it out m large quantities, and after reducing some festive feminine's reputation to ashes, fill un another pipeful ' and start afresh. Lo ! the" poor Indian. In Suva (Fiji) he's a curse,, a cruel beast and the missioner's 'bete noir, because he's spreading Mahommeda-nism. Anyhow, one of the curse from the Coral Strand, a planter, had to go before a Suva Magistrate t'other day for cruelty to a mule, which he had used for ploughing. The beast, he explained, was not working satisfactorily, so round the bit he had twisted about twelve inches of barbed wire.' One can imagine the agony the unfortunate mule suffered when a pull was taken on the reins. His tongue and mouth were cut, and the wire was covered with blood. The Magistrate, instead of jugging the fiendish brute, inflicted the maximum penalty, viz., aline of £5,