DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1832, 3 April 1884, Page 3

DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

Mr Thomson, as Chairman of the monster meeting held in the G.inison Hall on the 10th ult., re the Land Board's action in connection with dummyism in the Waikouaiti district, lias iecei\ed a lengthy reply from the Minister of Lands. The communication has been forwarded to the Secrctaiy of the Tiades and Labour < ounuil ; but that gcntleni.ui does not feel at liberty to make its contents public until the letter has been consideied by the Council A meeting will be held for the purpose on Fiiday night. Wednesday. At the Supreme Court to day, Dr. Parry, of Kaitan^ata, was chaiged with the manslaughter of Sarah Ann Cuthbertson through malpractice m case of childbirth. The jury found that Dr. Parry, in attempting to deliver the woman, needlessly caused a ruptuie of the vagina, from which the woman died. Tha evidence was that the doctor seemed in a drowsy condition, asit recovering from some narcotic. Some women in the house deposed that in older to rouse him they washed his face, combed his hair, and changed his shirt. He fell off the sofa at one time and they put him on it again. Eventually they sent him out into the garden to get some fresh air, but he did not return, and the woman died an hour after he left. The woman never was delivered, and the doctors on making the pout mortem examination found a lacerated wound in the vagina ten inches in circumference, and some of the bowels were found on the bed, torn away. For the defence, several medical men were called, who gave evidence that a case of internal rupture had occurred, but the theory set up by the prosecution was that the ruptuie was caused by external violence, aud this the jury upheld by their verdict. His Honour sentenced prisoner to four months' imprisonment without bard labour.