DUNEDIN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11530, 17 March 1898, Page 5

DUNEDIN NEWS.

[Per Press Association.! DUNEDIN, March 16. At Port yesterday John Caple was fined £5, in default thirty days’ imprisonment, for assaulting his son. He struck him on the arms and thighs with a stick for bringing a wrong message. The Bench thought the punishment exceedingly cruel. No doubt the boy deserved punishment, but to adopt such a brutal method showed little kindly disposition on the part of the man. It was proved that domestic troubleexisted at home.

At the Police Court, Archibald Cargill, charged with the theft of ten guineas belonging to the National Insurance Company, was fined £2O, and ordered to repay the money embezzled. Henry Goughian, of the Waverley Hotel, was fined £2, with an endorsement-on his license, and ,£3, without endorsement, respectively, on two informations for selling whisky last Sunday. Mr A. C. Hanlon, who acted for the murderer Clements up to his trial in the Supreme Court, has written to the Executive Council giving reasons for the belief that the condemned man is a monomaniac, and urging that the case is one in which the prerogative, of mercy might he exercised.