WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 109, 16 May 1870, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Amongst the passengers by the Lord Ashley for Napier yesterday were bis Honor Mr. Justice Johnston, and his associate, Mr. Ingpen. His Honor has gone to Napier to hold the usual quarterly circuit sittings of the Supreme Court. — Independent, May 7th.

On the Sunday afternoon, when the Ilauhau prisoners, now in confinement in Mount Cook Barracks, were landed from the Star of the South, it was universally admitted that they were a miserable, wretched, decrepit-looking lot. The assertion that such was the case has, however, given great offence to those who have to display them as the sole trophies of the war : it would have looked very much better to have paraded a band of fierce desperadoes for the admiration of the good folks of Wellington, and consequently, we are informed that orders have been given to spare no expense or trouble in getting the prisoners in primo condition before the trial. G-ood food and judicious treatment are working marvels; and in the course of a few weeks longer, aud with the aid of a little "set-up" drill, they will look very promising villains indeed, worthy of having the epithet applied to them of " false traitors, who, moved by the instigation of the devil, did assemble in warlike array, &c, &c,," and of having the sentence of hanging, drawing, and quarte; ing pronounced upon them in due form. — Ibid.