HARD TIMES.
To the Editor of the Otaoo Daily Times.
Slit—Slmnn time siueo a boy, for a foolish freak, was locked up for seven days. At the Tiiottro, tho other ni ht, a drunken brute atrik- h a harmless man iv tlio face, without any provocation, and the rufli-tn is fined l 5 T/'c cuiisequ-nco of the blow results in the sufferer hcim/ unable to follow his usual a vocations for several days. Although this is law. and no bl.tino can ' o attached to tbe legality •>! the latter decision, I am of opinion that a taste of the " cat-o'-nine-trti!-." ■wi.nl I de tho best cure for th'^flo wh > think th<-m-t-]vr>B entitled to hit an<l maim inoficuuive pc-.p10.--l am. Ac, Anti-Ri'kkiaN.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2258, 1 May 1869, Page 3
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