THE WAIKATO TIMES.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 456, 20 April 1875, Page 2

THE WAIKATO TIMES.

be, they have good cause to oe tnorouga^- asuameu of themselves.

The only -case set down for hearing at tire Resident Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, to-dny is Sairuel Teas v John Mullions* sen., for unlawfully rescuing cattle in course of being driven to the public pound. Mr Wbitaker will appear for the plaintiff, and Mr Hay and Mr Madden for the defendant. We are glad to learn that the construction of the wharf at Ngaruawahia will be commenced very shortly. It is to be erected close to the junction of the" two rivers, on the bank of the Wai pa, it will be connected by line with the Ngaruawahia railway station, goods, therefore, will be easily transferred from the railway trucks to the steamers, or vice versa. There can be no doubt that whatever effect the railway may have it will not succeed in destroying the chances of those who live by water transit. It must always be more beneficial to a large nura ber of settlers and traders to use the river. There is no excuse, therefore, .for those engaged in that branch of trade to delay procuring steamers bettersuited than the pi-esent to the requirements of the service they have undertaken to perform. We understand that Mr Mackay and Mr Marshall will arrive in Cambridge on Saturday next, for tho purpose of paying money for recent land purchases. Four hundred natives are expected to be in attendance. A meeting of the members of the Hope of Waikato Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will be held at the Lodge-room, Independent Chapel, Hamilton East at seven o'clock this evening. All parties wishing to join tho Lodge are requested to attend not later than 7.30. We have received a copy of the " Official Handbook of New Zealand," being " a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the whole of the Colony;" edited by Julius Vogel, C.M.G. The book has been got up in London and is illustrated with photograhy wood-cuts and maps of various parts of the Colany. We will give an extended notice of its contents in a future issue. Mr W. L. Rees, solicitor, has been elected a member of the Provincial Counc il for City East. The result being— Rees, 270 ; Holdship— 23o, giving a majority of 40 for Mr Rees. James Thomas Camp, store-keeper, of Cambridge, has filed a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors.

••OJSNB SSLUM FOBTI rATHIA."

iTUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1875.

" We call attention to the report of an inquest in _ another column, we have seldom had a case under our notice in which the deceased person appears more clearly to have come to death, to use the words of the Ooro.ie:-!.)/ " More than neglect." We will consider iiie different point 3 in the evidence. The husband stites tbafc his wife was taken ill first at 5 o'clock on Wednesday, and he got some brandy for her from Mr McGuirk at eight o'clock that evening, nothing more is heard of him till the next morning, when his daughter called upon Mrs McGuirk and asked her to go to the house as he? mother wa=3 very ill. Mr -ti'lcGuirk states that before his wife hft the house, .Pohlen came and said, Mrs P>hlen was dying. Mrs McGuirk, when she arrived at his house found the woman not only dead but cold. The Doctor who was fetched by McGuirk, arrived at half-past twelve. She was then "not only very cold bub the limbs had bscome perfectly rigid." Hs expressed the opinion that the woman must have been dead long before the tiine stated. The evidence of Mr Mooney clearly establishes the fact that the husband attempted to deliver his wife, and there is more than strong presumption that by his unskilful treatment, -t1)t 1 ) put the c\sc mildly, killed her. It is to us singulm% ,thst the Coroner did no.t pxpress a decided opinion, he being the only medical man present, as to what inferences were to be drawn from the existence of the matter in the bucket spoken of by Mr Mooney. Judging, however, from our report of his address he did not eveu look at it. The ease is an exceedingly ugly one, and if all such cases are to be slurred over in such a manner as the above — the door is opened for any number of crimes. A husband would only have to take his wife when in a certain condition to 9, lone farmhouse .anl he could murder her with impunity, and then not run the slightest risk of being overtaken by the law. When his wife was taken ill, why $id ,not Pohlori immadiately fetch his neighbour Mrs McGuirk to her assistance, we are confident that there is not a woman, in the district who unclei* the stances would ,have hesitated for one moment jto g->. We are led tj ,l>elieve that the nun treated ,fhe unfortunate deceased more as a beast of burthen than a woman to be cherished and respected, . in,d in her Jipur of trouble begrudged her any assistance, but that of his clumsy, rough, and uncouth We :believe we are correct in stating that ,the same result was nearly brought about by the ,<iame proceeding on a previous occasion. The mat jter must not be allowed tp rest where it is, as we above, the precedent is dangerous. It appears to us that the Coroner .flfropld .t»^v# insisted upon .adjourning, the va&& ; he should- Dot have naked the ,#ujry tQiallow'Hip ip/do so, tjie'poyrer was in;his j£ancla. -The n?toe* of those who .sat on the jury