CANTERBURY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2415, 31 May 1876, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

■ ' OußisTCHipiCH^May'ZS. , William Townsend (brother of Dr. Townsend) has been committed for trial for manslaughter, under the following circumstances: —He attended a confinement in his brother's name. In the absence gf othen instruments, he used a large pair .of <poinre\l soissora \o assist delivery. The child was born with two severe cuts on the forehead, and a jppst-\nortm-examination showed,thnt,the wounds penetrated the skull 'and train. The ohild Hveb* thirty-six hours. Medical wituesaes, at the inquest, asserted that, judging from the evidence of the nurse, and the fact of the child being born alive, no penetrating instruments of any kind were required, and thrft death resulted from the wounds inflicted 'by the scissors. / Steps are being taken for? establishing ft Bkating rink. , , .■ - • , AKAfio'A, May 27/ A new double demy paper, to be called tho Akaroa Mail, is nnnounwd to be published biweekly here, by Mr. Joseph Ivess,late proprietor of Jfee% Patew, Mail.» The first number is announced to be 4 p|ibjished on July 4th. '. ,