ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1241, 9 April 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

■_IMPORTATION OF CRIMINALS. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. .: Sir, —In your issue of Wednesday last you recommend the passing of an Act to prevent the influx of criminals, and plain that it is through the agsistqngq qf various ex-prisoners j\nd societies thq,fe many |iotor'ioua criminals are deported from the other colonies to New Zealand. Now, though I admit this to be the case, yet I must say that New Zealand is not guiltless in this respect, for the custom Dunedin is in the case of lewd woiflefy tq discharge them frqni ougtody upqn theip promising to clear qut tq Victqria. As n, Victoriau temporarily Residing herq ? I submit that this i§ doiqg equally aa turn as 'Victoria and New South Wales does, to New Zealand.

It is generally admitted that, while there may be some hope of an ex-criminal ieforming in a land where his lustqi\y unknown, and consequently whers lie free from poliqe intqrfqrencq, thpro is, not even a hopq of reformation lewd women, who immediately they arrive in a new country reoommence their sinful career, and so materially increase the main sources of crime. While any man or body of men has the undoubted right to employ or .pecuniarily asgist ejc-QriuuoaJs, even to the extent of assisting to gq j;o other in to enable to reform, of course any colqny has the right to exercise a supervision over suoh men, which oan only be done by sending experienced detectives to the other colonies, who would obtain full information about such deportees, for transmission across to their superior offioers. 1 submit that the subject is one of Yitfti

importance to every community, and, as a cosmopolite, I heartily regret that every country is not compelled to reform its own criminals and lewd women. Until there is a reciprocity of confidence between the police authorities in the various sister colonies, I am afraid that New Zealand will still continue to deport its lewdness to the other colonies and to receive in return importations of felons such a3 the infamous Burgess, Butler, and a host of others, all bailing from that horrible abode of crime—Pentridge. A Vl«TOBIA>". TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARC ItAIL. Six,—Would you kindly insert the following :—To the Clerk of the Weather —Permit me to tender you my thanks, and those of numbers of the inhabitants of Oamanz, for your kind intervention at a critical period in our behalf. When there was none to pity, none to protect us, from a dread vehicle —a dread nurserv—of fever germs, you came to the rescue" The bad turtle soup that oozed and fermented in one of our public highways has been diluted and dissipated by your propitious messenger. No longer does it slyly and insinuatingly crawl under the culvert in front of the mansion of a conservator of the peace, the health, and the morals of this community. No longer does it send forth it 3 odors until the air is redolent with accusations against oar city fathers. No longer docs it afford green paint for the end of my stick, and a delightful contrast to the surrounding scenery. No longer is it possible or necessary, for the nonce, for our neglectful authorities to stir one step in the "matter." You have demonstrated to them how simple it is by the application of water to cleanse our ways. Let them remember _thi3, that they should not always rely entirely upon you—that you help those who help themselves.—l am, &c., Heaxth.