LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1840, 22 April 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Meeting of Creditors. Arc'KLAND, Monday Night. At a meeting of Lionel Phillip's ctedi tois', an oiler of four shillings in the pound was refused, and it was i esolved to throw the estate into the Bankruptcy Couit.

The Rape Case. Homy fioodu aid, convicted at the last ciimiiul sessions of the Snpicine Couit of iape on Ellen Payne, and sentenced to five ycais' linpusonmont and two flog ',nn»s, leicived tlio first instalment of the HagiTation at Mount Idden Goal tins mouimg The piocecdmgs. w eic sttictly private, the only poisons present being th.' Deputj Shpntt (Mi Basl-y), Di. Phil&m, and the go\ ci 1101 of the pnson and \wiideis. The pusoner, when hi ought fr. m his cell, c ecmed C| mte composed, and did not exhibit any feeling dming tin. pioce-s of pinioning In place of the od- a?hi jned " tiiangle ioimoily in yog to in flogging in tho atniy and navy, tv\o upnght poles weie us>'d, and to thesi the pi^onei v.in -.foiuely tied, a edlu o' lcitliei bomt,' pla^e.l lound his neck t< pioteet th.it p 11 1 of the bo'!\. Tin &vi tenee of the law was can led out by tn. Wiiideisof the gn>l. m ho-e lacjliowed cK\uly that tho tc-k w,b not congenial one. The "cat uas emnposKi of knotted twine, and appmently caleiiui ted to inflict &e\eie. puniiliment At . s'gnaloneoi tlie w udcis stepped loi vv.ti u •' (!tit in hand." Tlioie was a shai, swish thiongli the an, and " iHimhei one fell on Heniy CJoodw aid's body lca\inu a discolouied mat k fiom tin shoulder to the libs. Tlie piibone bfjuirnu'd, but made no sound. r l\i> flagellant inflicted eleven otlier blows, each of which left its mailc on the biuised h.ick of the prisonei. who «a^ now fairly quivei ing with pam, but hi retimed his bense, and ga\e l-o vocal in dicatum of tho agony he was MifFenn. Another waidei now stepped forwani and taking the mstiunicnt of judicial to tuic f lom lius fellow waidei, admims teied the lemaimng tlnitcen l)luws. «A the fifteenth oi sixteenth stupe a httlt hlood came fiom the bmised a. id excoria ted back of the victim, and the twitchiru of the musclts and wngulmg of the bod) mci eased, but not a eiy did he uttu Lhe sentence of the law having been ful filled, ptibonei" was escoilcd from the scene. Jt is piobable that th' 1 flogging will not keep him fiom woik more tnan a week The second instalment of the flagellation will be inflicted in June.

Fire. Shoitly before 11 a.m., to day, a four roomed cottage situated at the lower end ot Biigliton load, Parnell, was destroyed by liio. The cottage was owned by Mi Samufl Wlulc, and was in the occupation of a man named Daniel McCJeary.