LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2049, 25 August 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[ll\ TKt.EORAPH.—OWN COUUEHI'ONDENr.] Horse Sale. Auckland, Monday Night. Akiki, has been sold to Mr Fullertou, of Mauku, for £l,") 0.

The Unemployed. The unemployed adopted a petition to the House of Representatives asking for other woik than stone breaking.

The Case of Attempted Murder. The heanng of the ease against Wakeham for attempting to murder his wife, was heard at the Police Court to day. The facts of the assault were narrated by Elizabeth Wakeham, daughter of the prisoner, who deposed that she was nine years old. Remembered Saturday, the 25th July. Her father had been out that (lay W I til hop beer. He returned in the afternoon. She was playing outside the door. He was> on the bed w hen she went indoors. Her mother asked him for money, and he had none. She borrowed 2s of a neighbour for her mother. Her mother sent her out with money to buy meat for tea. Her father asked for the 2s, but her mother would not gne it him. He then caught her mothei by the want and pulled her into the porch. He then thiew her down the steps, or rather pushed her down. She fell, and diopped the money fioii hei hand. There was a struggle foi it, and he got the money. He sit on her chest, and reached out foi an axe which was beside the house (t>he recognised the axe in com t). S.iw her father strikp her mother two or three times with the back part of the axe. Saw blood. Mother did not speak. Father got up, and walked into the house. She asked him why he had struck her mother in that way, and he said : "• Couldn't help it," and left the house by the fiont door. He said: "I've done it at last," and went up the street. Dr. Lewis deposed that there were four wounds on the woman's head, one fracturing the skull.