TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 71, 6 May 1881, Page 3

TELE GRAPHIC NE WS

(FROM OCR OWN" CORRESPOXDEXT. ) "Wellington, Thursday 7 p.m. The Penguin, with the 'Frisco mail, is expected at noon tomorrow. Whitelaw has at length found satisfactory • bondsmen for his bail, and will be liberated tomorrow. The prosecution in reference to Mrs Kettle's salary is now withdrawn, she having given her own acquittance for the money. The Government presented cheques for £25 as an honorarium to each of the Asylum Commissioners, j r but Messrs Woodward and Taylor de- \ clined to accept them. Several applications have already been received for the post of Medical Superintendent to the Asylum, but nothing is decided yet. The Tararua enquiry stands adjourned till Tuesday next, on account of the impossibility of serving notices on the officers.

Practical Spiritualism. — A strange case is at present occupying the attention of the Supreme Court. Some months ago there difd a wealthy mine-owner, Mr G. Lamont, who it appears before his death fell into the hands of the Spiritists. The evidence so far clearly shows that these good people not only took a deep interest in his spiritual welfare, but also in his 'etnporal possessions, as they got him to make a will, shortly before his death, leavine the bulk of his fortune to a Mr E. F. M 'George.- The principal person concerned in getting Mr Lamont under complete spiritualistic influence was Mrs Jackson, a %yell known medium, who lives with Mr M 'George as his wife, notwithstanding that her own husband is not in Spirit Land,, but is hearty and well, and as large as life in the land of the living. This sort of shady morals does not seem to affect Mrg Jackson much in the eyes of her coreligionists, nor. indeed, in her own. The relatives of Mr. Lamont have now applied for revocation of the probate of this will. The strongest evidence against M 'George and Mrs Jackson has been given by their own followers, who do not appear to be delighted that Lament's fortune has been left to them. Perhaps if ' Mrs Jackson and M 'George had been a little liberal with f heir ill-gotten goods, we never should have heard| anything about this affair. Melbourne correspondent of the Tablet.