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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 65, 30 March 1868, Page 77

" IT Alii) Laboe.” —The following story of colonial prison life is told by the Dubbo, Despatch:—ln a town not one thousandmiles from Bourke, Darling River, there is a building called by courtesy a; lock-up.. In it occasionally are confined a few “ waited ? and strays ” whose conduct has been such as to call for the interference of the law. A short time since a man was sentenced bythe local bench to seven days’ hard labor in this lock-up. A person going past saw the poor fellow who got seven days, outside the building, 11 up to his eyes ” at hard labor. He was cooking a beef-steak,. and if liberty means absence of police suisveillance he was tolerably free, for not a living constable breathed within yards of him. Being naturally of an inquisitive turn of mind, the person who noticed the prisoner deep in the Soyerian mysteries, asked him if he didn’t wish his week was a month, and he quickly received the following reply:—" Send I may live if I don’t wish it was twelve monttis.”

We take the following from Morgan’sTrade .Circular: —The territory recently purchased by the United States from Russia, seems already to have attracted a characteristic share of speculative activity, such as to justify the prognostications of Mr Seward. Enterprises of every description, it is said, are springing up, which ' promise to develope a vast Pacific trade. “ Building lota have advanced several hundred dollars in price at New Arohangel .. * and Sitka, iu anticipation of a large flow of emigration thither,” and. numerous parties . are organising in California; to proceed to the territory " to reap the wealtu afforded by her gold, copper, and - coal mines, her tirade and fisheries ” The ship-builders on Puget Sound are looking for .'exfousiye orders'in. connection with. the . traffic to ebe opeiied .up, and a United States navy yard, u to tie established oil Cambridge Islau^L r