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Temuka Leader, Issue 1033, 21 November 1882, Page 1

Horsewhipped. —At Auckland at 10 o’clock on Saturday, C. C. McMillan, senior partner in the firm of McArthur and Co., was [walking down the street, when he was assaulted by a man with a horsewhip, who proceeded to administer rigorous resounding blows about McMillan’s body. After several sharp cuts, the assailant tripped McMillan up and he fell on the pavement, blows with the riding whip still falling fast and furious on his head and neck, until T. Phillip', a compositor rushed in, and, with another passerby, put a stop to the fray. It was ascertained the person who had committed the assault was named Cornwall, and was a trader well known at Samoa and throughout the South Sea Islands. Upon rising, McMil.au informed the people standing by that the assault had risen out of business transactions connected with the Island trade, while Cornwall, on receiving the whip back from Phillips who had wrenched it from his hand, remarked that if he only knew the facts ho would hare assisted instead of stopping the horsewhipping.-, Cornwall then walked away, while McMillan, after vainly looking round for a policeman, walked back to bis warehouse to remove the dust from his clothes, and afterwards went round to the police station, with the object of laying an information. One cut of the whip had left an inflamed mark on his face, and he was breathless with the violence of the assault. Cornwall was in the afternoon arrested on a warrant for assault, but was immediately released on bail, Messrs Ilinubury and Fenton, merchants being his securities.