TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 15 April 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. [from oue own correspondent.] Wellington, April li. Be Hie reporf of the Asylum lioyal Commissioners forwarded to the Gover*

nor to day, tbe Commissioners find the tDßJority of the charges fully proved, and declare a Whitelaw totally unfit fo the position of superintendent. Special mention is made of confining a patient in a strait-jacket for seven months consecutively, and alsO dragging another patient out of bed on a cold winter's night, and holding him in a shower bath for ten minutes. Inspector Skne is also censured. Shaw, the complainant, is highly complimented for promoting the enquiry, Auckland, April 14. Wiekhnm, proprietor of Ibe' Free Lance, bus bf>en committed for trial, for libelling W. L. Rees. Sir George Grey's leg is again very bad, preventing bis intended visit to Auckland. Timabu. April 14. Ten thousand bushels of wheat were destroyed hy fire on the Carinbrae railway station's platform near Rakaia last night. It is supposed to be the work of incendiary. Kelson, April 13. Further reports from Collingwood stale, that Bes grove and Jonathan were crossing the Arorere river in a canoe, when ins'sapposed to~T»afe npseh TbT body of Besgrove has been found. \ CHBi<TCHUBCEt, April 14, : There nre now sir laree ships in Lyttel* ton flying the New Zealand Shipping Company's flag of tbe aggregate capacity of 10,000 tons. The block of grain is nnw expected io he speedily swept away.