New Caledonia
V rjotnt Viktor to New Caledonia gives" a shoeing account »f the itate of; aeeiety Wi'that n 4. f fc ••P ce * rt **?* the number of critniaaU living there amounts to about' 16.500. The Mortality ie very 1 grea& 'and -there -ar» nutneroa* •aeapee. Darnie the' last ten ! yeart a* fewer that 24? jronricte whe hareinan«Eed to smucKle theinielrfri .oa beard shir have beea dtseprered in the JLuttralian eolbaiot. Thf -grievaneea of the eolooiitu are therefore by mo meaat remote or imagiaary. la the &nt iaataace, no atteatat it made to «lanify < the priioaera, and tke feinlU are often diiastroui to ihoe* who are only partially depraved | The eoavietf are altimatriy divided into . J|?e elMteii* rahginf firom men who, are! kept to terere |atour, without any! relixatfon .or •induljteaeei, to mm who •wing to their ,gbod . conduct, , enjoy! oemvaratiTe freedom, aad, are restored toj family life. Many of ,the conrietsi B««re.ver, employ their conditional liberty! ia- preying ; '«pok 'ifee free ticttlers ' and the aatiTesi'aaatheTitate^f thing* in tl« colony hMin eeasi^neace beicaine iritbirrable. guch' being the condition of -New! Caledooi*. i* f i« Jftf surßrjsiag that them •hoald bei/W^>nife feeling in AnHtralia! agsbtt thi* pro,poj«»i to establish a) French penaLeekleaent . ia tb«
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 145, 23 May 1885, Page 3
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203New Caledonia Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 145, 23 May 1885, Page 3
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