R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3360, 14 November 1889, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

MASTERTON—THURSDAY, i (Before Colonel Roberts, 1U1.) AN KCCmRIC DRUSK. John McKelligot was charged on the information of Constabln Roche with being drunk at Eketshuna on tho 13th inst, Accused pleaded not guilty. Constable Roche said he was aroused shortly before G a.m. yester- ; day by accused, who said tho two f Dorsets were after him with guns, i Witness went out and saw that I accused was suffering from the effects i of drink. He did not. notice the i Dorsets or anyone else about. Witi ness called Dr McLennan in. ) Tho accused at this stage admitted the evidence and pleaded guilty. Sergeant Price said the accused had I been all right since he|caine to Master--1 ton, and that this was his first apI pearance before the Bench as a drunk. ; Tho Sergeantasked that Ibo doctor's ! fee of 10s Cd, and Constables expenses t 4s 6d be allowed. 1 This His Worship agreed to, and ! gave accused until to-morrow to pay • ilie amount, or in default imprisonment. > IN lEMORIAM > Of Mrs Strang, of Gladstone. You sleep in peace,—thy blessed spirit's fled f To yonder life, unknown to grief and , pain, 1 Ami thence you smilo upon tho tears we shed, Await the day, when wo shall ineei again, I ! Thy race was short—the crown of life is gained 1 In faitli vre wait, direct the thoughts i above, To yonder life, wlieresouls exist unchained, , The homo of peace, eternal rest and love. Adorn the grave 1 It is a sacred spot, There let her sleep, among the kindred i clay, There let her rest! and sharo the human , lot, Until we wake unto eternal day. , Thy soul is free in other worlds to roam, In worlds of light, by fears anil doubts unstained, We'll join you there, iu our heavenly home, By death alone tho crown of life is gained Oiws, MojiHvo. Gladstone, Nov. 11th 1889. The Delaware Whipping Post. ' Governor Biggs, of Delaware, writing ol a custom peculiar to his ' State, says: "We aro old-fashioned ' people down in Delaware, and ] presume we are away behind the times in a good many tilings, and | rather set in our ways; and that method of dealing with certain classes j of criminals is one of our ways. Now I am not an apologist for the " whipping-post, because 1 don't think that Delaware needs any apologies to be made for her people or her \ acts, and if they did they wouldn't : come with very good grace from her ; Executive, JiuL I can 101 l you some 1 facts. There is not in the State of ' Delaware to-day a single penitentiary. If a man beats Ins wife, or sets lire to a neighbour's barn, or breaks into ! a house, he isn't shut up with a lot of other criminals, with full time and ! opportunity to learn all their tricks of devilery that he did not know ' before. As a preventive of crirno tho P whipping-post has a much greater ■ terror than a term in the penitentiary, and I have never known of a man 1 that came back for a second dose. He simply leaves the State. You may rest assured that if lie stays in Delaware he lives a very quiet life, To be sure, it is a relic of barbarism, but it is our way, Tho Hartford ' Courant' saya of this peculiar ■ institutionAt three o'clock the 1 other morning Albert Gogler, of New I Haven, entered the bedroom where i his eighteen-year-old daughter Annie , was sleeping, and beat her into insensibility with a cart whip, because i she refused to give him the wages : she earned. Dr Converse, of Now . Haven, who made an examination i of the girl's body, says of her; " I , never saw a human being in a moro pitiable state from a whipping." On Tuesday, April 16, 1889, Senator Philip Corbin, of New Britain, during the course of tho debate on the celebrated Swift ease in the Connecticut Senate, said, as reported in the 'Courant' of tho next day:—'l believe that when a man kills a woman decently lie should he hanged decently and in order, but if a man beats a woman to death he should be whipped until he is dead. That is what 1 boliove to be right,' Wo iu Connecticut have no whipping-post. Sentimentalists call it a relic of barbarism for which the present generation has no need. Albert (iogler will probably be fined more or less. He may possibly go to gaol for a few davs more or less, It is safe to say that he will not be visited with a penalty severe enough to doter otlior Albert Goglers from torturing women whenever, and to whatever extent, thoy may see lit. For men of the Gogler stamp the fit thing is a meal oi their own sauce, and if the laws of Connecticut allowed tho Delaware remedy to tho very fullest extent for this particular ease, no tear 3 would be shedexcept those of Albert Gogler."

Commercial,

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co report of their Johnßoavillo sale yesterday; An average supply of fat cattle came forward, the quality being good, weights light to medium, last week's top prices being fully maintained. Sheep in moderate numbers; shorn wethers showed an easier tendency. The lambs penned were for the most part indifferent, Pigs, fairly numerous, at lower values. At Mr Scott's clearing sale at Tawa Flat, good milch cows were in favor of purchasers. Cattle 15 2s 6d to £6 10a, averages £5 Is and £5 17» 9d ; Mr Scott's coot £1 7s Gd to £2 17s

6d, averaging £2. Sheep, prime shorn wethers 12s, others 10s 4d to lis 4d, light weights 9s 4d; fat if 8s 9d to 9s lid; primo lambs llWd to lis 9d, medium Gs Gd to % lOd, inferior 8s Gd to ss. Pigs, large Iwconeis £2 Gs to £2lss, others 27s to 3G-*, large porkers 23s 6d, others 16s 3d to 19s Gd; stores Us 6d to 15s 9d, slips 9s6d, Ox beef 16s the lOOIbs; wether \ mutton lfd, ewe do lid lb. \ jr