TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 February 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

■■^ : 'V ♦ ■ ;^T ; :jfEpC:i;HIC TELEGRAPH. "Wellington, February 24. Most extraordinary disclosures are being made re Lunatic Asylum. The matron, who is the superintendent's mother, is a miserable cripple, eompelle^'fd go "Sbou't on two crutches. iVf hitelaw, the superintendent, has been jiri the habit of drawing her salary re* tinning it fur his own use. The Chairman said yes'erdav that a man who would rob his mother was capable of anything, j The funeral of a little nrl named Goodwin was postponed to-day bv the 6oroifer, as the doctors allege her death was accelerated" by a blow on the head i inflicted by a boy named Fitzgerald. ! Chbistchuech, February 23. j The body of a little girl named Moor* l , who has been miss'ng for the last ten days, was found this morning in-tjie^rjVer iriear |he cemetery. ' Last seen of her it is said was in" company with a wqmnn fashionably dressed, from Which it was supposed she had been kidnapped but it is also known she was in the habit of swinging from willows go^erhsfnging the driver* Nothing .more? Vtjefinite ha3 yet been ascertained as to 6he got into river. ? j Auckland, February 23. % The Australian cricketers left to«day ysit AraWdfa 7or Rvdney) '- ' ' 'f Pundin, February 23. $~ A serious accident happened to nigist at the Kensington Railway crossing. '*A cab containing C. Armstrong (publiactftnh Har^-r Mayo (tmblican), Lyon, Fir^bufn, i" and \ Griffiltts, was crossing line about half-past eight when goods train from south came up ; the eDgine drirer whistled, but the cab did not get out of the way in time ; the horse wns killed ; and the vehicle damaged. Mr Mayo is not expected to live^ bat the driver eecaped. For the Dunedin Cup : Sir Modred, 1 ; On Dif, 2; The Gorernor, 3