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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 46, 13 February 1908, Page 3

'I he Pre** report, at ease at Lvtiulton on Wednesday, which shows' the fliannor in winch some prisoners spend their leisure hours in gaol. The ease was that (if a criminal named George Ferris, who had been sentenced last year at Wellington'to 15 years for burglary, and who had evolved a scheme for escaping from his cell bv boring holes with a brace and bit through the wood',, portion of his cell door. With this end in view, the prisoner manufactured a brace in fie shocniaking shop.'aud stole two bits horn the tool-shop. He obtained a quantity of putty to iill up the holes bored by him m the cell door, and some redjMint to rub over (he putty in order 1 io conceal his handiwork. The prisoner also made a sandbag, shaped like a large savage, with which be intended to silence the warder who was in char'e of his toll. The sand-bag was a formidable looking affair, and would ha'c been a most ell'octive weapon. I'ortnr.ately the prisoner's plans were frustrated !>\ the vigilance of the warder. .Mr. ISishop sentenced the prisoner to be k ■ ,i in close confinement in a "light" cell lor 11 days, and to be fed on" bread and water for that period. Mr. Kettle, S.ir., doesn't see why prohibited persons should not wear a badge, and has remarked, facetiously, wc presume, "Police officers wear stripes, blue ribbon people wear little badges, and are proud of them, why should not the prohibited person wear some distinguishing mark?" Mr. Kettle must know that in British communities it is not usual to make public guys of criminals. To place a distinguishing mark upon pro. hibited persons would be a species of refined torture that only certain persons can appreciate, and the suggestion itself, we are afraid, is evidence of a lack of sympathy with the creatures so unfortunate as to be. the subjects of prohibition orders. It would, probably, be to the advantage of many an unfortunate" culprit; and thereby to benefit of the Dominion, as a whole, if magistrates were educated in criminology, and in the humane methods, which'are being used to-day in different parts of the world, in the treatment of criminals.

-SEW PLYMOUTH BOATING AND ROWING CLITs. (".JUAND PROGRAMME OF ROWING AND SAILING RACES At Uic BREAKW A T E II TO-DAY THURSDAY, 13th FEBRUARY, im. Water Excursions all dav lo No charge to the public. J. C. SMITH, AcUng'Sei'ivtary. PT AND THE PYRAMIDS.' ILLUSTRATED LECTURE.

By YEIiY KKV. D. J. O'SULLIVAX, S.M.A., of Cairo, Kgypt. THEATRE ROYAL, NEW PLYMOUTH. TO-NIGHT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, At 8 o'clock. GRAND SWIMMING GALA. U M C 1 P A L BATHS. TO-NIGHT THURSDAY, FEBRUAUi 13th, At 8 p.m. Held under the Rules of the NXA.S.A. 50, 190, and 220 Yards Intcrclub Handicap. Admission .. ONE SHILLING. A. L. DIXON, Hon. Sec. NEW PLYMOUTH LAWN TENNIS AND CROQUET CLUB (Registered). APPLICATIONS are invited for the Position ot CARETAKER and ((ROUNDSMAN for the above Club. Particulars on application to H. STOCKER, Hon. Secretary, Currie-street. BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH, rpAKE NOTICE.-The Valuation List for the Borough of New Plymouth for the year ending 31st Marcb, 1909, is now open for inspection at tbe Town Clerk's Office, King-street, New Plymouth. All objections thereto must be left at the Courthouse, Robe-street, New Plymouth, on or before the lath day of .March, 1908, addressed to the Assessment Court; and a copy of every such objection must be left at the To.vn I Clerk's Office aforesaid not loss than ten days before the next sitting of the said Court. Dated thi- 15th day of February, 1908. F. X. BELLRINGEi:.

NGAIRE GARDENS. THE WONDERLAND OF THE NORTH. rpHE finest place in the Dominion io hold a I'icnic, cither for School.-, Private or Pulilic Bodies, or Garden Far. tics: there is plenty of room. Beautiful Flowers, Lawns, and well-preserved Native Hush. Amusements in great variety, including The Great Sensational " W A T E R C H U T E." Quoits, Tennis, Skittles, (.'roquet, Boating, liathinjr, Swings, See-Saws, Bicycle Racing, Merry-go-Round, and, above all, That Mirth-creating Device TH E "M AI'POLE WH I R hj." Fruit and Eollie Stalls, also Tea Rooms, in the Grounds. Hot water is provided free. All games and amuse ! ments FREE excepting the Water Chute. Admission to Grounds .. SIXPENCE. A. TRUF.LOVE. Proprietor and Manager.

IAKAWAKI ACCLIMATISATION | SOCIETY. FISHING SEASON, Ist OCTOBER, 1907, ' TO 30th APRIL, 1908. ■ from A. S. Hassell, W. W. Murtoa and Co., E. Reynolds and Co., New Ply mouth; Sutherland Bros., T. Drake an& Co., Inglewood; D. Duncan, Opunakej and from the undersigned. D. McALLUM, Secretary. Licenses: Men, whole season, £1; women and boys under 16 years, ss. Short-period licenses, dating on or from December 20th, available for Tara- | nald district only, 12s M.

J-JRENUI-WAITARA COACH TIME TABLE Leaves Urenui Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 7 a.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 0.40 a.m. Leaves Waitara—Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 9.40 a.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8.30 a.m. On Saturdays Coach leaves Urenui for Waitara at 2 p.m. and returns on arrival of 5.10 p.m. train. On Mondays and Thursdays (loach leaves Urenui for Uruti at 12 noon. It. H. PEPPERELL, Proprietor.