LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 648, 25 October 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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‘ WBtLWGtON, October 24. The Committee on gapls report that the ihspectiob of Visiting Justices was irregular, and panishmehts in different ■parts of the. colony ordered by the Visiting Justices was too much in the hands of the gaolers. There was no pro|>er classification of prisoners sentenced to penal servitude, and first sentenced prisoners associated with them. Young women of previous good moral charaqteq associated with women df utterly depraved- character .and habits. The niark” systemwprked well, . but the? provision for teaching was inadequate, and the pay of Gaol officers throughout the colony was unequal—the highest in Otago, the lowest in Auckland. The Committee recommended an efficient system • of Government inspection, nuder a trained Inspector from abroad j increased accoramodatittn, if necessary, for penal servitude prisoners and a classification of the rest ; encouragement of productive industries; facilities to prisoners to earn a small sqm in discharge; appbintmeut. of . warder as schoolmaster; equalisation of salaries; and smaller gaols being placed' under Police;'‘ . The report of the Gaols Committee also stated that they had not been able to go thoroughly into the charges made by Mr Barton in consequence of the long time that had elapsed since some of them occurred, and the difficulty of securing evidence. There was no reason to believe that waton cruelty had been inflicted, but citizens were, wrongfully arrested, prisoners too readily, handcuffed, and, when violent, were chained down to rijigs jn the -floor. The police

had also refused to prosecute when appealed to. To much'power wife left in the hands* of the police in*''granting licenses. There had been too much laxity in the regulations, apd jn allowing police to accept rewards, from private individuals. ' Proper records bad not been kept. In conclusion, the Committee recommended £he periodical transfer of police officers. The Supreme Court was occupied all day an action for libel brought by Blundell Brothers, proprietors of r the Evening Post, against Robert Gardiner, late of the Evening Chronicle. Although Gardiner has left the Colony, and is not now ’connected with the Chronicle, the proprietors of that paper defended the .action. Me Travere. ,: api peared for the . plaintiffs; jand the At-torney-General, instructed .by Messrs Moorhouse and Edwards, for thedefendants, the 'Chief Justice presiding. The jury, after an absence of about an hour, returned a verdict, fpr the plaintiff. damages J 85,. pTbe AttprneyGeneral gave notice hie Bbohld, after ';thh sitting Of,.the ; Court, appeal' fid *IOO7O that the verdict of the jury hie set aside, oni : the ground that three- of the issue* were answered in favor of defendants. New 'October 24. Hiroki is at Pariki, bnt it is believed he cannot;{K)ssibly live On acconnt of a gun shot wound he received from some due in tbe search parties, when', jthey met. hiu»: near Opunake. . roust, have hit him ,in : the gtt>in, i and driven his cap, poach into ,the’ wound. He is under Te Whitn’s protection, who wishes to see Mr Sheehan. Ma]9 r BroWn .immigration Agent, has received advices of the sailing pfttfae Hermonia for ■.here.wjth 93-immigrants. THE TOEJOg:OT THE ©ITT OP . . ..;...-AUCKi/4irD....r. , ' ©Tf&K I, QctObto There is no'”yJkngdr of the Giiy pf Auckland breaking dpiydt. IChe moa was up ifeis mornipg, but Jenkins.,and the get down to launch', the .boat,? shoifitearaed away without c()mmani«ntiß^wM'i&e&ibre, although' ihdrb was^less surf on to-day than yesterday, provisions frijlp; .%"'BhTp y6^ Maoris raigyaiik; :. jgi . and; up, t i actiiig kjhijly . towafda' fthA' imwgifants and the crew. * jw-v.. ‘-..'The iraraigrairtwieftfSrtffe 'Waikanao in l.mll.opk drays;' tlie' &]nfemoa. The landingr-ajf the passengers has ^ v &ldetabl6 expedition, considertrtgthe circumstances, ah>l ’ without i the slightest awid&ffc'or disturbance^