COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 341, 22 August 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

[sßom 00-8 OWN COBBBSBONDINM.] d «r n B ?h H^^ 0y Bnd ° N^“d • “Wur. day in the Gaiety Theatre, of Motions in the wsre”o“d undV’ih- A u B °° d ware sold under the hammer, and others were oX e upret ll pS ard ‘ S ‘ 10 P ”“ nt ' S ‘ ”ho went to England to » Wkdunoton, laet night. man Abbot and his wife were charged for maltreating and starving Esther Powdrlek an orphan girl of 13J years, whom pris . isri had adopted, the prisoners would again have been hooted, but that ths police took the precaution of conveying them early to the court. A number of witnesses ware examined, including three doctors’ »"! ThA^H 6 ’ u' ld ‘a® elrl E,ther PowdridrLi The latter deposed to being constantly treated and starved, and to having tied up without food for throe punishment for not getting on quickly \vitK" her work in the morning, and toSiaving been The t ™-’ r,th *“ ° k by Mra Abbott every day? The prisoners were committed for trial ; bail was allowed themselves in £l5O amf two nnt n-A ° f 0 Baoh J bat ° prisoners could not procure the sureties they were removed ’• to tb9 intense delight of an Immense concourse of spectators. meuee Tho Hawke’s Bay footbaßeni p’ayeffivTeri. 4°points and W6M d ® ,oUd by t r. . . Nblson, last night Lord Cranley is now convalescent, and tha Governor left for Wellington yesterfiy?