SERIOUS ASSAULT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 342, 13 February 1889, Page 2

SERIOUS ASSAULT.

We jwifj-et to lmvo to record tiiat a Siul qfHiiir took place on Monday ev«ninsf last between Mr Ji)hn Woods, butcher, Te AnuSm, nud Mr Fjud< Uyd^, a yonn<? fnan who recently Ctirm to 'Jo Aroh'tl i'rbui

Huntly. It appears thnt al>ont six oVlock <">n the evening named, Mess7\s .Wood, Hyde, and some other* wore standing at the bar of the Hot Springs Hotel having some drinks, and that Woods and Hyde bet 'drinks' about some tiivial matter. Hyde (states that he won the bet, and that Woods disputed tin's and refused to ' shout.' Be that as it 'may, some warm words passed and Hyde making use of some offensive term, Wood suddenly rushed at him and with great force, stabbed him with greatvioleneein theface with asmall ti-tree stick he was carrying The end of the stick, which was about the thickness of a man's little finger, penetrated Hyde's face just below the c} c, and olo^e to the nose, It appears to have missed the eyeball, and passed upwards behind the nose, to a depth of between two and three inches, and breaking off, remained in the wound, from whence it was extracted with con* fliderable difficult}', leaving, a terrible wound which bled profusely for some time. After the wound had been stitched by Dr Cooper, bleeding from the nose continued for come considerable time, but this was eventually stopped by means of 'plugging.' As may be supposed the injured man suffered intense agony,' and' passed a bad night, but managed to go to sleep for ashoit time yesterd iy forenoon, on awaking, however, he was very restless from the severity of the pain. Sergeant Emerson on ascertaining the facts of the case took Wood into custody ; and be was brought up before Messrs Dobson and Ilott, J,'sP., yesterday morning at nine o'clock, charged with the assault. The police stated that owing to the offence having occurred so recentlj*, they were not then prepared to go on with the case, and asked for a remand for eight days. Accused was therefore remanded till 10 a.m Tuesday, February 19th. Bail was accepted by the Bench, himself in iilOO, and two sureties of £50 each ; Messrs Lipsey nnd A. A, Smith being accepted as sureties. The injured man is lyina: at the Hot Springs Hotel, and latest report last night was that h Q was a little easier He is desirous of boing conveyed to the Hospital, but it is deemed risky to move him about for fear of bringing on bleeding agair.