THE INSPECTOR OF PRISONS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2256, 25 June 1881, Page 4

THE INSPECTOR OF PRISONS.

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Paper! have been laid on the table relative to the appointment of Captain Hume, Intpeotor of Prisons. The terms of his engagement are as follow :—Salary, £6OO, with travelling allowance for self and family to the colony; engagement for three years, butterminable by six months' notice on either side ; if terminated by the Government within three years, the passage Home of self and family to be poid by the colony. The engagement is to oeose if the appointee becomes incapacitated for service, or if he refuse or neglect to perform his duties or carry out the terms of his engagement. Sir J. Vogel wrote stating that of thirty-seven applicants for the post only one was at all eligible, and he proved to be in too weak health. Sir J. Vogel represented that the salary he was authorised to offer was quite inadequate to obtain a really good man, and he urged the Government to authorise him to make the appointment a permanent one under the provisions of the Civil Servioe Act. The reply o? the Government does not appear, but a subsequent letter from Sir J. Vogel announces the appointment of Captain Hume. Sir J. Vogel states that lie is forty years of age, and very highly recommended, having had large experience in prison management, and having been DeputyGovernor at the Millbank, Dartmoor, Portland, and Wormwood Scrubs State prisons. Sir Edmund DeOane strongly recommended him, and Sir J. Vogel is satisfied that he is the best man procurable on the terms. Shortly afterwards he received a letter from Captain Hume, asking that he might be given cither Government quarters or else a lodging allowance. He stated that he learned the house cents were so high in the colony that had he known it at first he should not have aooepted the appointment, as he would change his position for the worse by doing so, and would be Tetter off as Deputy-Governor in England. Sir J. Vogel replied that he had no power to vary the terms of the agreement, whioh accordingly was signed as originally framed.