MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1103, 21 June 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Portland Guardian says " the giddiness with which Mr. J. G. Francis was attacked while endeavoring to address the Assembly last Thursday night it traced to injuries received by him many years ago in Tasmania, while defending his home from a burglarious assault One night Mr. Francis was aroused out of his sleep by unusual and suspicious sounds within Jits house, and suspecting the cause he slipped quietly out of bed, and without waiting to put on his clothes proceeded to the quarter from which the sounds came, first turning the key in the lock of his bedroom door, however lest Mrs. Francis, hearing a disturbance might follow him and fall into danger. Entering his diningroom he saw a man making his escape by the window {having no doubt been alarmed by his approach), when he went for the burjjlar, succeeded in seizing him by the leg, and dragged him back into the room. Then a fierce and prolonged combat .ensued, in the course of which Mr Francis received the injuries which are supposed to be the source of his present illness. How the battle would end was still in doubt, when help arrived. Alarmed by the noise of the struggle, Mrs. Francis had got out of bed to go .to her husband's assistance, but finding herself locked into her room she got out the window and ran for help to the nearest neighboring house, cutting ier bare feet as she ran upon the sharp stones of the road. The burglar was secured, and in due course carefully ianged, as was the pratice in Tasmania , in those days." I