SULLIVAN AGAIN.
(New Zealand Herald.) The notorious Sullivan still remains a prisoner in the Peutridge Stockade, the authorities not having been able to obtain a passage for him to this colony. The people of Victoria do not believe in contributing towards maintaining in complete idleness a villain of the stamp of the one now under detention until his removal can be effected. We learn from the Argus that the Secretary of State has suggested, the propriety of repealing the law which enables the Governors of some colonies to set prisoners at liberty on condition that they absent themselves from the province in which they were con • victed during the currency of their sentence. The injustice of the conditional system, says our Melbourne contemporary, has been brought home to us by having to provide for this man Sullivan, and we cannot do better than show our sense of its iniquity by complying with the Earl of Carnarvon's request, and erasing from the statute book the enactment which puts our Government hi a position to inflict similar wrongs on others. We think that the New Zealand Government would do well to follow suit.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 343, 19 July 1875, Page 3
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