SAVAGE ASSAULT.
A very serious assault took place in the Australasian hotel on Saturday evening about seven o'clock. It appears that two men named Whelan and Berry were in the bar and entered into a dis’mission as to their relative merits with the pick and shovel. Words led to blows and Berry knocked Whelan down and while in that position seized him by the ears and dashed his head on the floor several times, rendering him senseless. Whelan did not recover conseidusness until Sunday when he was removed to the Hospital. He is better now, but has not got the proper use of his legs yet, and it is thought that his spine is affected in someway. Berry was promptly arrested and conveyed to the lock-up where he remained till this morning, when he was brought before the R.M. and remanded till Friday, bail being allowed, himself in £SO and two sureties of £25 each.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 27 December 1882, Page 2
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