SINGULAR APPLICATION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1182, 23 October 1882, Page 2

SINGULAR APPLICATION.

At the Bath Police-court a young lady applied to the Bench under the following cin-umstnnces : —She said she was the daughter of Colonel Ferris, who had served is the Indian army, and she was entitled, in her own right, to £4O a year from the Indian Office. Her mother, who was in receipt of a pension of £3BO a year, had lately joined the Salvation Army, and would not maintain her, and as she was not of age she kept her £4O pension. She wished to know whether her mother could draw the money. Superintendent Berry said he had seen the mother, who nave him abuse, and declined to give her daughter the pension. She appeared to think of nothing else but the Salvation Army .Tn reply to a letter from her daughter, she stated that “she was engaged in the Lord's work, and that, was all she wanted.” Her brothers and sisters had ail 5 left their mother, and she had offended an uncle because she refused to leave also. The Bench suggested that the apnlicanl could write to the Indian Office or to her uncle. A lady consented to take charge of the young lady until an answer was obtained, and the applicant then retired.