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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 43, 15 February 1889, Page 7

A prominent member of the Carlow Hunt was brought to big senses not long Bince for striking a farmer when in pursuit of Reynard ; Mr. Balfour's own broihf r found the other day in an English couit tbßt he could not ride roughshod, as the phrase has it, over a tiller of the soil in England, when that eprig of the Scotch nobility was also engaged in the chase ; and now from Kildare comes the story of a brutal assault upon Mr. Edward 0 Neill, of Kil'.inane, by a follower of the hounds. Mr. O'Neill tried to stop the hunt over his lands. He aßked one man wearing a rod cjat and a tall hat his name. The man replieJ. "Go be damned ' Mr. O'Neill ca-ight the hors> by the rein.?, when the rider immediately hit him on the right ej c with the but:-end of his whip. Mr. O'Neill was knocked senseUs?. He lay unconscious on the ground for some time. When be recovered he went out on the road, and asked some members cf the bunt fo r the name of the man who had assaulted him 1 hey one and all refused 111 1 give i. Some time tvs eljpeed si .cc this outrage took place, but we do n jt read of any effort of the police to briug the luftian who struck Mr. O'Neill to justice. Had tbe case Wen the reverse, O'Neill would, no doubt, by this time be in the county prison.