A WARNING TO WIFE-BEATERS. AUCKLAND, June 19.
Mr Kettle, S.M., talked very plainly to a wife-boater in the Police Court thie morning, when a bootmaker named John Oarbey pleaded " Guilty " to having assaulted Adeline Carbey, his wife. Tho accused remarked that it was only a slight quarrel, anj he owned that his wife wai right in refusing to give him money, as he was drunk at the time. " Drunken men cannot go homo to batter their wives andt then make drink the excuse," remarked the Magistrate, who told Carboy that he had treated his wife in a most brutal manner.He intended to put down such assaults with a strong hand, and he would have no difficulty in dealing w>th Carbey - but; for the fact that the punishment would fall harder upon his family than on himself. Under these circumstances, and takirtg into consideration tho fact that it was Caxbey'a first appearance, the accused would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, being also prohibited for 12 months. "If you come before me again; for ill-treating your wife." concluded Mr 1 Kettle, ''don't expect any mercy from inc."
The Colonial Museum has lately been enriched by the addition of a large number of specimens of Maori art, including the' collections of the Rev. T. G. Hammond! (Patea), Mr Cf. Handley (Wanganui), and Mr H. Hill (Hawke's Bay). Plans are now being prepared for a new museum, in whioh special provision will be made for Maori antiquities. Authority has been given by the Colonial Secretary for the director (Mi? Hamilton) to issue periodically a report 1 setting out the chief additions to tha colk.ctioiie..
A Primitive Methodist minister gave a definition of a drunken man to the Mana.tvatu Licensing Commiftee, sitting at Marton, as follows:— "When a man is lying on the roadside, his horse is 50 yards away, he does not know whether it is morning, noon, or night, and hi* limb^ ar» para-
In the year ended April last the patronage accorded the Workmen's Hotel at Wellington (Salvation Army) was large. Meals numbering 31,331 were served, and 24,901 bods supplied. At the People's Palace, A uckland, the figures were far greater : U7O Bhs and 28.756 respectively..
A WARNING TO WIFE-BEATERS. AUCKLAND, June 19.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 58
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