BRUTALITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 698, 21 February 1881, Page 2

BRUTALITY.

(To tlie Editor of the Daily.) Masterton, Feb' 19. Silt.-About 2. p.m. this afternoon, . near the corner of henall and Chapel-sts,, . a hiau (intoxicated) fell from his On getting up he took off the stirrupleather, and, with the iron attached, he swung it around and struck- the librae / ahout the heAd, cutting the hidejmd making the blood flow with every blow; j.When Xcame up, the people living bj j- . .»a'i'd he had been beating the poor annua I in this, way for nearly an hour.. Eyeryui^ witiiessius! it were crying out shame, but; no olio cared about going near ihe-angry ! cruel, and brutal wretch. Sergt.M'Ardl :• was sent for, but in the meantime tW '". man had i;one oh to the Upper Pbii I road, and was not taken into cuatodj [ But even after this, lam informed, he w; s seen brutally cutting up the head of ll I dumb and defenceless animal in a in" , unmerciful and savane manner. I h»p i. air, you will bring tin's matter befoie il I publ'ic, so that the law may be enfoiced s pi event such cruelty to animals, j Yours, &0. , Witness. ■ l P.S.—I have heeu informed that th ( f man's name is C.Sherlock. TpperPlaii ;, : 1 - . "* . 1 !IBMTNISeK"L"EM m WKtwmWlK,—in year 1845 ut worthy citizen pionded his wi I with some difficulty through fern ancUi-trj ■ to Te Aro Flat baing in search of _ the siy veyr's opejj which had been driven in. at te " corner of what is now Cuba and Dixji s . streets, Upon this spot was erected a emd I house, in which a very successful drapep business wan carried on by two ladies f r remarkable talent and energy, who Imp n long siuce retired from the seeuo to the l«fl s of their birth—--6 " Land o* the mountain and the flood, >i jyuui uf brown heath and shaggy woo i In the year 1860 it passed into tlie l)3nds||. , Mr Jamkb Smitu, the present propriety. *' who gave to the premises the apprppriw--4 name of Te Aro House, and under whoe ut management business has steadily pi--3 grossed with the rising, fortunes of the cji K until at length it was found that a consioV.j.,. r-. rable enlargement was necessary, and tja; ; if' result was, Te Aro House, as at presets:-;. B one of "the most-complete and Extenwe-■-,-, Drapery Establishments' in the colony,of |j" -Now Zealand, Tho leneral Drapery ocju. . [■ pies a largo space, being 49 feot by 25 fet, ' *mply sufficient for all Manchester goals, Fancy Dresses, Silks, Gloves,' Hoeii'ry, °, Ribbons,pipes. &p. 'fhpMpn/ji, Bpy's.lp A Youths'' Clqthing Department measure) 2$ II feet'liy 14 foet, and has attached a ebmM. '»' able fitting-room. Carpets aud House')pl(] i furnishings havo a similar space allpttel 4p rs thein. The Show-room for tlie Bale of MiU n /linory, Mantles, Jackets, postnmeß, <k, is a very spacibija' apartment,' eiegaptly fit|?(] ;.■. i)P,'-aiid'|)e.p)iifH|ly lighted from the'ropiand measiires ty feot by Sa feci The jtock , of goods h at all times large and well ; selected, and patterns are forwarded post * free on application, A special featur9i.afc-- " Te Aro House is the Ordor Department, aud ' 1 vory careful attention is paid to the wants 2 of Country. Residents. All orders are executed 5 -under the immediato suiierviaion of the pro--2 priotor, and securely packed and forward.?!] • 6 -p-titik do#wt(pn with.that promniJiMS • f and 'despatch tfh'iijh liave %«y's m% 1 guished To Aro House, Cub j-strocl, WclliPfl' 0 OU.—fADYT.!