A gaoler s report (we quote from the 'Evening Post'),: might naturally be expected to be a somewhat prosaic document, but a perusal of- the last annual: report by...'Mr-.. Caldwell, the Governor of the Dunedin G-aol, effectually dispels the idea that this is necessarily tlie case. There are some people who can impart a gra>ce and charm to all they say and do, and Mr Caldwell seems to.be one of them. He is evidently no ordinary gaoler, who, in in writings of the works effected by prison labor in Deborah and Carey's Bays, concludes a paragraph thus,: —"To use the picturesque: language of Erslrine in his noblest oration, the restless foot of English adventure, is unceasingly encroaching on so many, deserts, and the tried virtue of the 'English character is converting them into' flourishing abodes of civilised life." 'What a splendid perbra-, tion this quotation would haveimade for some ambitious, speaker, during the present session, if Mr. .Caldwell had not spoiled its picturesque by association with gaol statistics'.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 232, 15 August 1873, Page 3
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168Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 232, 15 August 1873, Page 3
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