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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1528, 11 February 1899, Page 3

On Friday a lad named George I*aac West, only about 14 years of age, was at the Nascby Magistrate's Court committed for triil at the uext Supremo Court sitting* on u charge of attempted rape on a child of very tender years. The evidence was of Mich a nature that it iB quite unfit for publication. It. was wisely heard with closed doors. This sad cime coming immediately after ilia hearing of others of a similar character, uiiiht surely direct the attention of parents to the paramount necessity of parun'.al control »nd wise training. While such Imppenings may raise in the minds if the thoughtful the question whether we have in lhi« li.it dv&uta of the 19th century ail vanccd in rinhtenimncxn so very fur bevou-1 lli.- <ti.y> of King Alfred whet) t'ie historian lolls us a woman might go uu so»l>.ed aiTiiss the wilds of Knglnn-1. The match New Zealand v. s..utii !'«•■- mania wjui drawn. Both sides seorrd ... H in the first inatngs, 335 and 313 respectively.