A Pitiful Story.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 245, 14 November 1903, Page 3

A Pitiful Story.

Keceived 14, 2 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 13. A five months old child was found strangled in the City Park. The mother, a servant of 19 years of age, unmarried, has been arrested. .She boarded the child out for a time, but was compelled to take it back ; and consequently lost her place. The children's homes refused to take in the destitute, and friendless woman and in a fit of desperation she strangled her infant.

The People's Day at the. Christchurch Show yesterday attracted a record attendance of 24,000 peoplt. Rain at 4 o'clock soon dispersed the gathering. The Show was generally up to the averalgo of previous years. The horse jumping was detrimentally affected by the" rain. A sum of £B3 2s 8d was taken at the gates at the Floral Fete. The approximate amounts from the refreshment and other tents was £37, and from the Waihi Mine £l2. There should l>e a net surplus of about £IOO. The ladies' committee held a meeting 'this morning, when the various statements submitted showed a total of £132 18s Gd, of which amount £l2O was banked, and the balance held back to pay accounts. We are told that there will be a number of resignations from the Borough Council during the next month. Mr "Edmunds has to give up his seat owing to his early departure for Opunuke, and Mr Tisch will also be away on a visit to the great St. Louis Exhibition. It is further reported that-Mr Brooking desires a rest from municipal worries, and that Mr Alexander will resign on account of ill-health, whilst Mr Bellringer will also retire from the arena of local politics. The burgesses will have a large order to find new members.

The after-effects of the holidays provided the only business at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. James Harvey, an inmate of the Old Men's Home", whose friends bad plied him with liquor on the previous afternoon when the men had been given a holiday, and who had at a later period been found lying drunk in Robe-street, was fined 5s and costs. Mr Tisch, Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, stated that Harvey had been reprimanded several times at the Home, his one failing being that whenever he was allowed in town he got tho worse for liquor. On Mr Tisch's application a prohibition order was issued against him to take effect in all hotels in the Taranaki Licensing District. Harvey's fine will have to be paid out of his tobacco-money. The next case was that of C. P. Andrews, who appeared on remand charged with having refused to leave licensed premises when ordered to do so by the licensee. The evidence of the police was to the effect that Andrews was drunk on King's Birthday, and although repeatedly ordered to leave the Terminus Hotel, bad stolidly refused to do so, even when told that the police would be called. The accused addressed the Bench, stating that on the holiday he had had one or two drinks too much, and was not aware of having caused Mr Hadfleld any inconvenience. He had sinco apologised for his conduct. Mr Stanford, S.M., took these facts into consideration, and imposed a penalty of 20a and cqsts, stating that under other circumstances a flna of £5 would have been inflicted.