PICKINGS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 178, 30 December 1892, Page 6

PICKINGS.

A few recent sentences reported in the English papers : —For brutally assaulting a wife, and turning her out naked at 2 a .in —ordered to find one security of £5. For trapping a hare—three months’ gaol. Car rying a gun without a license—line of £1 13s sd, Flogging a horse until the animal was bleeding in half a dozen places—fine of 18s Gd. Picking up some pig feed —one month in gaol. A ‘gentleman of iudependant means ’ for travelling without a ticket—fined 40s, A poor woman for ditto—- twenty eight days without the option, Also a girl of fourteen who ‘broke out iu an ungovernable rage ’ in ph industrial school, and was thereupon confined by the matron for a week in a bare stone cell with no seat and no bedding, being arrested at the end of that period—remanded to gaol who ' to magistrate thinks over the matter. •'... man, a visitor, hired a boat at Margate and rowed out of the harbour into

| the Roads, tie handled the oars well, and gave impression that he was an experienced oarsman. Some time afterwards the boat was seen to he drifting, and as no occupant could be seen, the owner rowed out, and found that the man had disappeared. He had left his cap and over 30s in the boatq with a note requesting that the boatman should be paid out of the money. The name of the man is unknown.