WELLINGTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3500, 25 September 1882, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

September 25

With regard to the mails destroyed on board the Alaska, the secretary of the Post-office furnishes the following details :—The Home mails are practically made up in five sections. The 6rst is the " London district " mail, which comprises all the deliveries on the London letter-carriers' rounds, and also the mails for the Continent, which are sent on from London. All these are suppoeed to be safe. The next division is the " Liverpool " one, comprising the mails for that city and all the officee circulating through that place, which includes a large part of England ; this batch, too, is believed to be safe, as also are the Irish and Scotch mails sent to Dublin aud Glasgow respectively. This only leaves what is called the " country " mail, which term includes the comparatively small portion of the United Kingdom not comprised in the other four divisions, and it is this portion which is supposed to have chiefly suffered.

An enquiry was held on Saturday into the circumstances connected with the sudden death of an infant named Henrietta M'Carthy, aged four weeks. The evidence showed that the mother, Catherine M'Carthy, had been confined in the Women's Home, and that the child was adopted by a woman named Jansen a short time after the infant's birth. The child had been fearfully neglected by Jansen, being left almost without clothing, and for hours without any nourishment. When remonstrated with as to her treatment of the child Jansen replied " Let the little beggar cry and die, I'll pay for the funeral." The medical evidence showed that there had been neglect, but not to such an extent that death was caused by it. A verdict was returned that death had resulted from natural causes. It is understood that the police intend to take further action in the matter.