A COW OF AN OFFENCE

Mother’s Day has just been celebrated throughout Australia . In 1811, just 23 years after the first European settlement in Australia, an episode involving a woman created an outcry among colonists . With his wife’s consent, a Windsor man , near Sydney, put a halter round her neck , led her to a road and offered her for sale at 16 pound ($32) , a large sum in those days. As a result, her husband was sentenced to 50 lashes and three months hard labour in irons; the woman was sent to Newcastle and the purchaser lost his money.