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Dunstan Times, Issue 236, 2 November 1866, Page 2

" The Bendigo Advertiser " announces a Cell 8 f ml claimant for the Governor's daughter in the person of a Chinaman of the name of Yin Fooh, who has been wandering about the district in a state of mental aberration, and his eccentric conduct has been the subject of much comment. On Wednesday his behaviour becrae more peculiar thau ever. He appeared to le laboring under a remarkable hallucination. He went to the private residence of Mr M'LachUn, p. lice magistrate, and vehemently declared that that gentleman had the Governor';) daughter in the hous", de manded immediate admittance to tha lady and on being quietly told of his mistake was so violent that it was deemed prudent to have him apprehended. Yin Fooh was accordingly tonve\ ed to the lockup, v?hen he turned his attention to Sorgeant Drotight, to whom ho addressol the most earnest entreaties to be taken to the Governor's daughter. The prisoner was brought before the Mayor, at the Town Hal) Police Court yesterday, as a lunatic, when his curious demeanor and exceding loquaciousness cieated considerable merriment, although none but the Chioese interpreter Wat Ahj Chee—could understand what he said. 'He was remanded to gaol for one week for medical treatment. Poor " Yin Fooh!" The epidemical excitement consequent, uron the recent visit of his Excellency Sir II T Manncra-Sntton must have bun too much for him, and turned his bain.