WELLINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 47, 22 May 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

WELLINGTON.

We understand that on the earnest recommendation of the visiting magistrates of the Wellington gaol his Excellency has been pleased to pardon tiie following prisoners now in confinement for various offences—John D’Arcy, David Marshall, Patrick Cullen, William Darley, Benjamin Stringer, .fames Kelly, and John Slraker. ilis Excellency has also been pleased to commute file sentences of James Gaffney and Charles Straker, who were condemned to imprisonment for life, to imprisonment for seven years from the date of the commutation of sentence. The prisoners who have been pardoned will not be liberated until communication has been made with Auckland, and the necessary documents have passed through the Government ollices. We believe that this exercise of clemency will give very general satisfaction, pari ieularly in the case of the Strakers, whose case has excited much sympathy.—Spectator. We are very sorry to learn the death of Mr. Turner, assistant-surgeon of 11.M.5. Harrier, after a short illness. The deceased officer had been ill for the last nine days, but it was only within the last throe days that his illness was pronounced to be of a dangerous character ; the immediate cause of death was inflammation of the bowels. He died this morning at 4 o’clock. During the day the flags of the Harrier and ships in harbor have been half-mast high. —New Zealand Spectator, May 7.