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A TRAGIC HOSPITAL STORY.

A painful story is related by the Paris correspondent of the Times:— Two children in a Paris hospital, it is ssid, were mistaken for each other,-brie, child that died being buried by the wrong parents, and the surviving one being offered to a mother who found it not her own, The children were suffering from scarlatiua, and no visitors were allowed to see them, Mdtne. Buhamel, a concierge, sent her boy 4 years old, to the hospital, received occasional reports of his progress, and after two months had notice that he was convalescent, and might be taken home, She sent a neighbor, who, however, did not recognise the child offered her and declined to take him. Three days later a nurse took the child to Mdtiie, Dumal, and insisted that ho was the coucierge's son, There was a mutual absence of recognition. Ultimately the Hospital authorities admitted that the tickets must have been misplaced, and that Mdme Duharael's child had died twelve days after admission, The anguish undergone by her may easily be conceived. Meanwhile the other parents, named Molcra believed their child to be. dead, and had borne the expenses of the funeral. The two children, who were of the same age, but different in color of eyes, and hair,, at first occupied adjoining beds; after some days the doctor ordered both .to be transferred to another ward. The nurao_ who. transferred them placed the ticket of-one child on tho other bedhead. -MV Molera, when informed seven weeks later that his child was was possibly still, alive, and asked whether'lie could identify it by any mark, ho stated that there was a" mole spot on the back. There was, however, no need for any external-sign, for on going to tho hospital the child sprang | into his arms. The nurse who misplaced the tickets has been" dismissed, PUNISHMENT JNSOHOOLS. A case of considerable interest to schoolmasters was brotight before Mr John Ollivier at the Asbburton. Magistrate's Court on Thursday, The master of the Flemin,gton sohool, Mr H. C. Williamson, was charged with having assaulted and beaten a young pupil named James Davidson. From the evidence it appeared the lad bad struck another small boy, and, when taxed with tho offence by the master oflheschaql, he repeatedly denied it* Several other small boys satisfied the master, that the lad bad struck the blow, whereupon Mr Williamson laid the young hopeful across his knee and administered a jW smart stripeß with a gorse Bt{ck, The. second blow, drew front % fed i\n admission of his guilt, and he was then informed that the .'«wliaoktog" he had received was not for striking the other lad, but for the

unpardonable offence of lying. Tho masterhad : had previous trouble with . Davidson, and had found "it necessary on several ; occasions to chastiso him for not speaking the turt h 4'be Magistrate case to be not of a very sejjps '.'nature, and intimated that it was not necessary to call evidence tor the defence. > In: dismissing Mr Ollivier said it seomed that the schoolmaster had, while the boy was' across his knee, "applied the rod a little more vigorously than he should have done, -. and he bad been a little indiscreet in the choice of weapons, as a gorse stick was hardly the kind of rod to apply to a child. Still, he thought we lived much in-an age of "fads/'aii if schoolmasters were not allpwem to judiciously punish offending children, thesparin'g of the rod would result in the growth of very bad citizens. He denounced the vice of lying, and said ' that, a good sound thrashing would always act as a wholesome check to so disputable a vice in any boy.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2779, 20 December 1887, Page 2

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A TRAGIC HOSPITAL STORY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2779, 20 December 1887, Page 2

A TRAGIC HOSPITAL STORY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2779, 20 December 1887, Page 2

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