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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 260, 26 April 1878, Page 12

A FEW sections still remain unsold in the township of Sunny Dale. The greater number were, however, eagerly bought up at last Saturday's sale, and we understand that in many instances purchasers have since been offered a considerable bonus on their acquisitions. The remaining sections, which are quite as desirable as those already sold, will be disposed of by auction. . on Saturday next, by Messrs. M'Landress, Hepburn and Co. As Captain Baldwin has decided on selling the property without further delay, there will be no reserve price placed upon the sections. They are to go for whatever may be. offered for them. THE xevelations of the New Jersey Prison tortures before the Legislative Investigating Committee confirm the worst charges, and are almost too hideous for belief. One ex-keeper testifies in an. offhand way that he saw as many as five or six convicts at one time with gags in. their mouths ; saw men chained down to the floor, rtnd at the same time gagged so tightly that they could hardly. breathe •; -saw men bound. to that modem adaptation of the rack — the .stretcher, their hands fastened to the "coiling and their toes touching the "floor ; saw convictschained to the floor with their handcuffs on ; often heard screams coming from the dungeon; and had seen a woman,' with black and blue marks on her wrists, who told him she had been strung up.