A Cargo of Criminals

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 40, 5 April 1884, Page 3

A Cargo of Criminals

Another cargo of moral sewage has says the " Argus" been discharged in the port of Noumea from the transport ship Loire, which his brought 373 convicts, of whom no le s than two-thirds are officially cla^eifi* d «s inveterate criminal.-, oonsistinsr of 33 a*sas.-ins IS mur iere s, 24 homicide^, :8 men who have been guil'y of criminal attempts upou w. m n. 21 incendiaries, 9 persons convicted of s f abbiii'_» :<nd wounding, 12 lbrger<, 20 cum rs oi counterl'i-i* money, 1 big; mi t, an I 2? 7 h ibi u>l thieves ' iihesa, 225 are 01.l offend, rs, although IV no means ill in years : t'.ir it si-ems that those Xio witness d .Uicir debarkation were struck by tinyou'hfilluess ot ibe- grcmer number oftheru uCe sont tmi^ les enfauts" was the « -xclamation wh eh rose to the lips ot the bystanders. As well it might ; for these were no less than 50 who are under 20 years of age. and 114 who are between 20 and 25. hey are therefore, full of physical vigour, which will qualify them to succeed in the efforts thej- are sure to make to escape from a penal settlement ; and they will have possibly a long career o* crime bpfore them in these colonies, towards which they will naturally shape their course