OUR IMMIGRANTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3651, 4 November 1874, Page 3

OUR IMMIGRANTS.

To the Editor. Pnij—The New Zetland Pres* and people unhesitatingly condemned the Government on hearing that nllivan had been shipped to San Francisco ; aud they were right. To show you that othe s aro not so studious of the feelings or interests ef New Zealanders, I enclose a slip from the ‘Jersey Express,’ J'*ne 13. 187k I think 'ho gentleman referre 1 to would not be unworthy of a little of that delicate attention with which Mr Sullivan was honored upon his arrival in England.—l am, &c., E. Pepplbton. Dunedin, November 4. The following is the extract referred to “ Robert Bodenhani, a powerfully-built fellow, with a number of atlases, was charged by Centenier La Lievre, on a report, with haying stolen a bundle from a shop in Charles street” kept by Mrs Collins, and with having assaulted several persons who we.' t in pursuit of him. He had left ITvrkhouse prison on the 11th April, after having don© seventeen years’ penal servitude for crimes committed in England. Prisoner is a native of St. Peter's parish, and previous to his transportation had been before the Court lor various offence, not fewer than twenty times between 1850 and 1853. Bodenham, who expressed a desire to leave the country, was remanded to enab e the Jersey police to get him a passage to New Zealand.”