Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-08-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

INDIAN GIRL IN LONDON.  Mr. Cooke has had before him, at the Mary}... bone police-court, a singular case relating to the custody of an Indian girl, said to be under 14 years of age. The complainants were Amelia and Louisa Campbell, and the defendants were Frances Amelia Pratt and Thomas Hinckley Pankhurst, accused of enticing the child away, and the Rev. Benjamin Waugh, hon. secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who was charged with receiving and harbouring it.— Complainants' counsel stated that his cheats, daughters of a well-known missionary, brought the child, whose name was Pyara Rama, from India to this wintry about eight or nine years ego to train and educate. The girl was an orphan, and what was known as the family child. She was homeless and atarving. Miss Pratt, who lived in the same house as the Misses Campbell, took the child to the office of the society of which the Rev. Mr. Waugh was the secretary, and which had since retained possession of her. The suciety,which was a self-constituted body, had not even given information about the matter to the police.—The Rev. Mr. Waugh said the child had a story to tell which he had been investigating for weeks, and he had to say that the Misses Campbell were not fit persons to have the charge of the child, who had complained of cruelty. He had infrwrried the Scotland Yard authorities of all he had discovered. He was not prepared to give the girl up; and if he were, the girl would, he was sure, commit suicide. (Sensation.)—Mr. Cooke ordered the girl to enter the witness-box, as he had a question to ask her. As she passed across the court one of the coniplainants rushed forward towards her, exclaiming, "I must kiss my dear child." The girl, who wore aii Indian shawl over her head, and who seemed in a state of great fear, ran away from them, and was protected from molestation by the officers of the court.—ln reply to Mr. Cooked question as to whom she would rather live with, she repliel, " I don't want to go back to Miss Canipbell's."—Mr. Cooke: Then you would rather live where you are?— The Girl: Yes.—Mr. Cooke said the complainants' counsel had much better have gone to a Judge in Chambers with regard to the case. He adjourned the whole of the summonses for six weeks, Mr. Waugh undertaking that the child should not be removed out of the jurisdiction of the country.  James Paterson, butler, and Samuel Taylor, book canvasser, have been drowned in the Tay, at Lincarty, about four miles from Perth, by the sizingCapof a boat front which they were fishing. David Fenwick, a gamekeeper, who was also in the boat, was saved with difficulty.  A torpedo that was lost in Stokes Bay from the Polyphemus five years ago 112.8 been picked up by a frshing boat, it having been caught in a net. The outer case of the torpedo was considerably worn, and large holes had been eaten in it by rust, so that it was full of sand and shingle, and, therefore, practically valueless. The fishermen's nets were much torn in hauling the torpedo to the surface, and the Government have offered to make good the damage in addition to paying a rewarl of £5.  Mr. R. Mills, of the Treasury, has been appointed Assistant-Comptroller and Auditor-General. Kitchener Pasha has been appointed Adjutant. General in the Egyptian Army, vice Colonel Hallam Parr, who has resigned. Colonel Holled Smith is named Governor of the fled Sea Littoral, vice Kitchener Pasha.  It is stated that the Board of Admiralty has decided to revive the office of Director of Transports, which was abolished after Lord Charles Beresford's vesignation last year. No provision was made in the current year's estimates for the office, and the £3,000 a year which had been previously provided for the office is shewn as a saving. The appointment has now been definitely made, Captain Harry Brent, in command of the Royal Adelaide, guardship at Devonport, being selected for the new position.