MOSGIEL POLICE COURT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15

MOSGIEL POLICE COURT.

• Saturday, September 17. (Before Mr E. H. Carew, S.M.) Alleged Assault. — Thomas and Samuel Shaw were charged with assaulting Henry Lawson Johnson at Berwick on August 31, and complainant prayed that defendants be bound over to keep the peace. — Mr Solomon appeared for the complainant and Mr Macdouald for the defendant. — Complainant gave evidence that on August 31 he was on his property with one M'Bean, the employee of a contractor on the place, w.hen -ho saw Thomas Shaw and a boy with horses taking away manuka logs. Witt ness remonstrated, and told him that he was trespassing and thieving. Witness endeavoured to take off the chain, but defendant knocked him down, and told him that his brother had. sent" him for the log. He took away the logs, and witness followed him on a horse. They came upon the other defendant in front of his house. The latter rushed at the horse's head, and the other defendant moved up on the ether side. The horse reared back and fell, and witness'-s- leg was- underneath. The Shaws pulled him out, and said something to the effect that now , they had him they would murder him. They struck him so severely that blood flowed from his ear. Some of defendant's women folk intervened, or he believed he would have been killed. One of the Shaws assaulted him • before.- — Defendants gave evidence that the log was not cut on complainant's ground i at all; it was cut on the bush reserve. Defeni dants denied that they had assaulted complainant in "the manner stated. A squabble ensued as to the right of the defendant, who went for the log, to take it away, and complainant endeavoured to restrain him by force. At this stage the case was adjovirned till tho magistrate's next court day.

The late Mr George Printz, of Southland, is said to have left property worth £220,000. The Dunedin Chrysanthemum Club received by the San Francisco mail which arrived on the 2nd inst. a consignment of new varieties from London for next year. Of the 44 plants sent, 42 arrived in a healthy condition, which speaks well for the system of packing adopted in England. The varieties are all new to the colony, and they embrace all latest and best amateur plants m commerce. The club promises to r>e a great success, it having now a' I membership of 240, and given anything like 1 a good season the next chrysanthemum, exhibition should be a record one for Dunedin^ ie not tho colon.*.