SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 131, 11 August 1870, Page 6

SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.

A very pretty and well dressed girl, named Lizzie Baker or Annie Smith, ,» was' taken to the Eastern lock-up, ™ Ballarat', on Sunday night by the police, on a charge of vagrancy. The girl lives with Her sister, a woman with three children, and a recipient of outdoor relief from 'the Benevolent Asylum, in a wretched hut in Pennyweight Gully. Senior-constable Kilfedder, and Constable M'Cormack went to the place last night, and saw a catdle, burning in thehiit". There Was neither fire nor door, and upon nearing the door of the hut they heard a girl's ( voice appealing to ".Bobby" as to whether -or not she had kissed a certain Chinaman. 'They went in and* ' fpund three children, the youngest about three years of age, and the' eldest, who turned' out to be "Bobby," about ten,' lying on the floor, dirty and shivering under an old opposum rug, while on a horrible dirty bed lay the girl and a Chinaman. The Chinaman was turned.' out, and the girl was taken oft' to the ! lock-up. In Sergeant Larner's office] she said she was nineteen years of age, and that she was living in the hut with' her sjster, and that her father and mother had been up the country for, some ' weeks. The Chinaman never_ gave her anything, she* said, but a little drink occasionally. She also said that she had' never smoked opium. She produced "an affectionately written letter 'from her father, in which he| expressed' a hope that she might prosper and that God might bless her. She did not care much 'whether she was locked* 'up or went back to tbe % Chinamen, who live near the hut, and so the "Sergeant ordered her to be placed' in a cell. * Two other girls, under, sixteen years of age, were arrested on | the same day, in the camp at Golden' ; Point by Constable Sheridan. Their, names are White and M'Lellan, and both have been before the Court before. The sergeant seems puzzled as to how. these'eaaes are to be met. A young girl was arrested at the Chinese Camp' ' the other day, and he went and sought' out her mother. The parent' appeared wholly unconcerned. 'She' could'nt help it she said ; what was a woman to do with a houseful! of daughters ? Probably if parents were made 'answerable for the conduct of their children," and punished! wjien they misconducted, themselves in this manner, they would' be a little triare< concerned, and find" I out their duty 'towards a ' " house full," | of 'daughters I ,*—" Ballarat Star.

The great natural curiosity known as " Sunken Lake,'' is situated in theY Cascade Mountains, abouk 75 miles_ north-east of Jacksonville*, Oregon," The walls are 2000 feet 'high, and al.mostperpendicular^.running down into' the water, and leaving no beach! 'The' depth is unknown, the surface is smooth and unruffled) and it lies so far below, the surface^of the mountain that the air currents do not affect il. ' Its length is estimated at l^^niles, and its breadth at 10. No living man has' it is said, ever reacted the water's edge. The' .lake lies "silent, still, and : mysterious in the bosoni of* the evertasting hills, like a huge well scooped out by tho hands of the genui."

] Sgllqwaifs Pills. — Swimming of the head, nausea, distaste'for food, and a' feeling of las&itude and exhaustion, are infallible indications ofatorpidstomach and a general sluggishness of the. secretive organs and the circulation.

But it is not therefore necessary to send for a doctor. A course of Holloway's great cathartic, alterative, and tonic remedy will remove eviery unplea- " sant symptom, and imbue both the body , and* the mind with unwonted energy. Every animal fluid will. Be purified, every obstruction in the evacuatory v channels sw^ept away, every organ regenerated. These may. seem to be strong statements, but the testimony of the sick of .all 1 nations is their source and basis.

The first fifty tons of .quartz, crushed by the Perseverance Gold "" Mining Company, Nelson, has given 172£0z.

Ani A Auckland publican has been find , 50s arid costs, far tearing down a thea- ' trical cartoon. The cartoo^ tiad been specially got up for the 'occasion of . the representation of the dsaraa, " The Bottle," and" . delineated a drunkard under the influence of delirium tremens, "blue devils." 'One of these cartoons' was placed opposite the publican's door. Some of the evidence was very amusing: — Jhon Copland (defendant) deposed that,.the picture was about eight ' feet square. It represented a man knocking down a woman with a bottle. There were % three invisible spirits — (laughter) — and a Maori with a pipe ' in his mouth. There was & v rat on his ] hind Jegs with a pipe in his mouth, and a pig under the table. *Fhere were a great number of flourishes which contained the ideas. — (Laughter.) II 11I 1 told the man before he put' it up " that if he put it up opposite to my private room I would pull it dow^ again." — Mr Sheehan : Hpw did you. come to* see the "three invisible spirits?" Witness : They \yere under | a cloud. — (Loud laughter.) The picture was indecent ; a man knocking a woman down with a bottle is an indecent act. A rat on his. hind legs, whsi a pipe in his mouth, ik not fit to be seen in a ' public throughfare. — (Loud laughter.). Judgment was given agairtet Mr Cop-^ land for £2 103 with cost;;/ ' * v *- > *