INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 490, 25 March 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

From Ike Ly Helton Times

Wellington, March 23

I have heard to-day on direct and unquestionable authority of a matter which, in the course or! a clay or two, will probably culminate in the arrest of two or

three civil servants, and will doubtless create a profound sensation. It has been discovered that stamps to the value.of some hundreds of pound* have been abstracted. The pilfering must have being going on fora lonjj period undetected. Fulsome time the matter li is been in the hands of the detectives, nnd more Mian usual precautions have been taken to keep it quiet. I am given to understand that arrests would have been made before this, but the detectives believe that the persoi s implicated must have had a. confederate outside through whom the stamps were turned into cash. Matters, however, are rapidly culminating. The information may be depended on as strictly reliable. So far, outside the Government and police no one in Wellington is supposed to know anything about the affair.

The Asylum enquiry will be resumed to-morrow, when Mr Shaw purposes endeavouring to bring forward aome more very startling evidence, but it will probably be objected to as being new evidence, and not strictly in rebuttal. Public 1 feeling still runs very high on the question. 'To night's Post says : "Dr Skae's powers and duties, as interpreted by himself, may be the same as those of the British Commissioner's, but assuredly they are less— very much less—than will satisfy the public idea of what an Inspector's authority and functions should be. More very much more than this is imperatively required, and must be as imperatively) demanded by the people of this Colony."