DUNEDIN.
(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day.
Be the infanticide at Tokomairiro, its is stated that the girl Collins immigrated here a year ago. Lately her fellow-servants noticed and made remarks on her appearance. On Saturday she spent the greater part of the day in her room, but waited at table at tea. A fellow-servant, who slept in the same room noticed an alteration in her appearance, and on searching her room with the police found, under tbe mattrass of Collins' bed, the body of a full-grown female child, evidently recently born A pair of scissors was found under the toilet-cover.
The single girls, ex City of Danedin, readily found employment. —The Garelock immigrants were released from quarantine to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1571, 23 February 1875, Page 3
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119DUNEDIN. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1571, 23 February 1875, Page 3
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