CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3166, 12 April 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

This day. Caristchurcli wants a Session of Parliament. At a public meeting respecting the holding of the next session of Parliament at Curistoburch, Messrs Eichardson, Bowen, Murray Aynsley, and Stevens, Ms.H.K,., opposed the idea, and pointed out how inadvisable it would be. Messrs Wakefield and Brown, Ms.H.K., supported the resolution—"That this meeting cordially endorses the action of the City Council in urging the Government to have their next session at Christohurch." The resolution was carried with two dissentients. Stephen Walsh alias Green alias McCarthy alias Allen was committed for trial for the larceny of a cheque for £30 and £5 cash from Allen, a laboring man. Thursday. The business of the Supreme Court was finished to-day, with the exception of the case of Schwartz, which will be taken next week. John Manders, indecent assault: In this case, His Honor, after the jury had returned a verdict of guilty, said respectable women must be protected against such foulmouthed, ruffianly blackguards as the prisoner. His was a case for corporal punishment. He had come to the conclusion that in such cases where men had lost all self-respect, to apply corporal punishment, as it was peculiarly suitable in cases where men forgot their better nature. It was a case in which short but sharp punishment was most effectual. His Honor concluded : " The sentence of the Court upon you is, that you be imprisoned, and. kept to hard labor for three calendar months, and after the expiration of ten days you be flogged with the cat 25 stripes, and that a fortnight before the period of your imprisonment expires, you be again flogged with a cat 25 stripes. I believe that this is the most effectual mode of administering punishment in order to make a lasting impression."