Power, the Bushranger.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 124, 21 April 1884, Page 2

Power, the Bushranger.

The queafcion d) the discharge from the P^ntrwlge Stockade of the once notorious bushranger, Power, has been repeatedly brought before the Government by Power during the last few years. According to the Argus he would, under the rules and regulations -of the establishment, have to serve 11 years and three months out of a senteuce of 15 years, and would consequently have been entitled, m the ordinary course, to his freedom two years aStT" nine r ih*onfhs ~sj? d.~"?Birr : «C"* the timejhe on the fith of February, 1869; from the ' Pentiidge -Stookade,he had * poitioftiof-wiotbftli-; sentence of five years to complete. This sentence Power is now servingk and it is stated his time' will^h>\4 completed, and that he will be allowed freedom. During the last few years his hair has turned quW white; and though nearly three score and ten years old, he possesses an activity $£T • body which is seldom to be found m men of his advanced years. Since he haa; been at Pentridge he has been a weU-conductod man, and, has, given .little trouble to the authority^ It is ; stated that as soon as he is sent back into the outer world, a be»e volent lady rr will provide for the remainder ■ or Bis yearn.