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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 157, 4 July 1874, Page 2

In New South Wales, (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Times) the excitement about the contemplated release of tho bushranger Gardiner increases in ioteosifcy, and there is talk of getting up a petition to the Home Government .to recall the Gbvcsraor^ahould the course be persisted in. Certainly^t-iira. m onstrons blunder, out of consideration for^a scoundrel who, as the late Chief Justice aaid, " most unrighteously " escaped the gallows on whioh his companions were hanged, and who has now gone through the wretched farce of a good repentance, to determine to occasion such uneasiness to the law-abiding citizens of the Colony. There have been a great many cases of bushranging in that colony of late, and in Sydney garotte robberies have been so frequent as to call for the introduction of a Bill to provide for flogging in such cases. A bushranger was hanged at Goulburn the other day who' confessed to having committed fonr murders. And it is in a community so situated that the Government, which in this case means the Governor, persists in releasing the notorious leader of the bushrangers of tbe Colony, who kept the whole country in terror for years, and; whose pardon would do more to encourage lawless outrage than any other circumstance that could possibly . happen. Sydney Punch the other day "had a:

JJP I *, cartoon, "Throwing, off the Mask -showing Gardiner pitching aside his Bible, prayer-books, bundles ot tract*; and mask of pious hypocrisy, as be gallops away, mounted on the Governor's rac-borse Fitzyatteodou, and his belt stuck full of revolvers ready for work.