LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1417, 18 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, April 16. The Canterbury Jockey Club, at a largely attended meeting to-day, refused to endorse the disqualification of Mata and Ray by the Victorian Racing Club. Wellington, April 16. About 2.30 this afternoon John Henry Whitelaw, late Superintendent

of Wellington Asylum, was arrested on a warrant charging him with “That he did on the first day of May 1878, then being an officer having the care of one William M'lntosh, a lunatic patient then detained in the Wellington Lunatic Asylum* illtreat the said lunatic patient by taking him from his bed at 10 o’clock on a night in winter striphitn of his clothes, taking his across an exposed yard, and placing him in a confined shower bath, and there keeping him xlnder a continuous shower of cold water for the space of ten minutes, such being an indictable offence,” The information was laid by Chief Detective Brown, who was acting under instructions from the Government. Whitelaw was admitted to bail, himself in £3OO and two SUi'eties of £l5O each. He will be brought up on Monday and remanded. Dunedin, April 17. At the Roman Catholic Church today Bishop Moran, on the eve of his departure for Rome, and on the occasion of his silver jubilee, was presented with an address from the Roman Catholic congregation. The racehorse Le Loup, recently purchased by Mr James Shand, will not race again, but will go to the stud. Auckland, April 16. The Transit, from Rarotonga, brings 130,000 oranges Procoffy is unable to get away, having no means, and a countryman of his proposes inviting subscriptions from the public for that purpose.