SOUTHLAND

Otago Witness, Issue 2360, 18 May 1899, Page 26

SOUTHLAND

Mr Poynton delivered judgment on Thursday in the case of Winifred Healy(se'rvant) v. Thomas W. Perry (hotelkeeper), a claim for £200 damages for assault, which consisted in punishing her in a way he would a child. His Worship said that although he could not find that the assault had caused serious permanent injuries, and although the defendant must hare.Lr&n much exasperated by plaintiff's remarks to his wife, substantial damages must 'b« given on account of the sex of the plaintiff, the indignity she had been subjected to, and the relationship of master and servant then existing. Judgment*would be for £55 and costs.

Eight cases of typhoid were admitted to the Auckland Hospital during the last fortnight. — One of the sayings of John Hunter, tha famous anatomist, has become a classic. Interrupted one day in the midst of the- dissection of * rare and interesting specimen by the message that a patient was waiting in his consultation room, he at first refused to see him. On second thoughts, however, he threw down hit scalpel, and rising, with a weary sigh, exclaimed, " Bui I suppose I must go and earn that d d guinea!" — which is life in an epigram — Outlook.