LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 700, 23 February 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

[prom our own correspondent] . WELLINGTON. Tuesday. ■■ Leslie Donald, a clerk at Bannatyne's, importers, was sentenced yesterday to twelve months' imprisonment, with Hard labor, for defalcations. The cause was card-playing. His dishonesty was discovered by the books being balanced during his laying-up rom an accident. He is married, andrespectably connected. This Day. The inquiry into the conduct of the' Wellington Lunatic Asylum is still proceeding. Whitelaw, Superintendent, will probably be suspended this. morning. The ovidence is very 'damaging against him. Cruelty to patients, visiting nude female lunatics in their cells, brutal conduct, and even malversation of the institution funds are likely to besheetedhome to him. The witnesses avow the institution is a little hell upon earth. No rebutting testimony has yet been produced.

James Coutes Crawford, lormerly R.M., and who has recently, returned from England, was assaulted in Willis-street yesterday by a man named Styles, in retaliation for judgment given against him some

three years ago. The. Albion yesterday, oh her passage from Napier to Auckland, ran into and sunk the schooner Isabella Pratt, about dawn.

Th. stranded ship Hydrabad, off Otaki, was burnt yesterday. Cause unknown. The brig Clematis, from Hobart Town was wrecked on Long Lookout Point, near Port of Lyttelton, yesterday. Assurances are.given of rich quartz discoveries at Cape Palliser ancl'other localities near Wellington.

Loviu was re-elected Chairman of the Harbor Board.

BRISBANE,

Five New Caledonian escapees landed on Island of Moroton Bay from a boat, naked and nearly starving. They were immediately arrested, BLENHEIM. Two boys got unauthorised entrance to a flax-mill, and experimenting with the machinery, when one named Stark got his arm cut off at tho elbow. AUCKLAND, A heavily-laden wood-cart passed completely over a lad aged six without crushing his spine or his ribs. The doctors declare it an extraordinary case, and the boy will recover from his bruises. Procoffy, who is accused of the murder at To Aroha, is romanded, The natives threaten his counsel if he defends linn, and the police have warned three Europeans, whose names were inadvertently mixed up in the matter, to" clear." • This Day.

The Australian cricketers, in their first wrings, are all out for 144. The Auckland twenty-two had two wickets down for 28 when time was called. The Australians leave for Sydney by the Arawata to-morrow, thus tho gamo may possibly be drawn.

TAUEANGA. There was a great tangi ovor the remains of Honi Tupaea, the feast costing 1500. The natives are gathering in crowds. The steamer Taupo has moved twenty yards, and great hopes are entertained of lifting her. Speculators offer seven thousand for her in the Auckland dock, fIUNEIP, The final acceptances for the Cup are—; Fishhook, Volunteer, Sir Modred, Eandwick. On Dit, Governor, Lady Emma, and Sylvanus, It is not likely that Lady Emma will start. Adamant is scratched for all engagements. This %. An accident happened on the racecourse yesterday. Sir Modred fell over a dog, knocking two teeth out. Six to four are now offered against him; On Ilit being second favorite at four tq one. QHRISTOHUROH, The wheat crop qf Waimato will average fifty bushels per aore, MELBOURNE, Tho Australian telegraph land line is interrupted..