VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.
[ The Irish State Prisoners. —A correspondent of the Launceston Examiner, in an indignant letter, thus records the recent con[duct of the government to three of the Irish [state prisoners, who had, as ticket-of-leave holders, left their respective districts without permission. The Launceston Examiner says She statement is correct. “And this brings fee to the steps recently taken by the governinent against Messrs, M'Mauus, O'Dogherty, iod o‘Donoghue, three of the state prisoners. |ihe facts of their case are simply these. On Ihe 2nd of this month they proceeded to New for the purpose of paying a visit to pfr. O'Brien. Information of their having Bone so was laid before the police magistrates It Launceston and New Norfolk. They were Bf course compelled to act upon them, and Consequently Messrs. O'Dogherty and M'Ma?>us appeared, last week, before the police Magistrates of their respective districts. Their gases were dismissed, with a reprimand and fautton to these gentlemen Dot to leave their districts for the future without the proper permission. It was then folly believed that the fatter was at rest; but, to the astonishment if these gentlemen and their friends, on Christmas Eve Mr. O'Dogherty was arrested |y order of the Lieut.-Governor, and forthwith conducted to the prisoners’ barracks at pobart Town. A similar order was forwarded jo Launceston, and on Thursday night Mr. left, on the mail, in charge of a Constable, for Hobart Town. Both have been Sentenced by the Lieut.-Governor to three ■nonths’ “probation” at the ultra-penal settlepent of Port Arthur ! P.S. Since the above pas vzritten, I learn that the convict authorities of Hobart Town have enforced the confrict regulations to the utmost. The state prisoners, on arrival at the prisoners’ barracks pere at once stripped of their ordinary cloBDing. and habited in the grey clothing of the prison-house; they now breakfast on their Bation of “skelly,” in common with the thrice ponvicted scoundrels who form the staple of phe iron gangs I” ■ The Ball.—Since the arrival of Sir WilaiJ d Lady Denison in this colony the ptnnual Juvenile Ball is looked for with as puch regularity as New Year’s Day itself, of these delightful reunions was given IL" a “ I Denison on Wednesday evening, on K occ asion every part of the vice-regal ■ ence Was thrown open for the accnrnrr.n-
I dation of the numerous visitors. —H, T. Advertiser, Jan. 2.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 582, 1 March 1851, Page 3
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396VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 582, 1 March 1851, Page 3
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