MRS GORDON-BAILLIE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1878, 27 June 1888, Page 3

MRS GORDON-BAILLIE

! Mrß Guidon Bailiie, alhs Mrs Frost - for that is the name she ia pleased t: ( acknowledge — bag (<«ys the London cor respondent of the •' Argua ") turned up again aa lively as, or more lively, than ever, and has oonaented to b 3 " Interviewed " She is exooßaively communloative, and exhibits little animosity even towards her moat parijfs'ent detractors. She dsolarcs that she was born In the Highlands In 1858 ; that her maiden name waa Bruce ; that Bhe wai educated at Bdlnbnrgh, at Mrs M X c'wiVs aohool ; and th »t she had no hlng to do with the Misa Brace Sutherland, whode doings, she deolarea, ara being foisted upon her. She admits being a gtvat favourite with Sir Richard King, '' Who made over to her during his lifetime what he intended for her by deed of gift." Sho declares that she has reoolved many lettera of sympathy from frlenda In Australia, together with a Bplendid Australian Block whip, which waa reserved for the shoulders of someone whom Mrs GordoaBftlllio designatad "The Willing Vidim " She rldlcnles the idea that she ran away from different places m AuilraUa ar>d Now Z ialat d to avoid paying her d.bts, and aaterts that, on the oontrary, ahe always advait'aad her departure, and intimated that aoooonts must be sent m to her aolioltor. The colonial papers, ahe alleges, " badgered her from m irnlng to night," thongb sho tried to p.vold thosa,