CAREY'S GRAVE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3079, 9 April 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

CAREY'S GRAVE.

Sir Thomas Gratton Esmoude, M. P., has complied iuto a neat volume the letters he wrote " home " describing his trip to Australia iu tho cause of il'-'"" Rule. He thus describes tho grave of Carey, the informer :— James Carey lies near Port Elizibeth. We visited tho spot. A more awful lesson was never read, nor in morj awful eloquence, than the mo.-iil of that far-oil grave. It would even seem as if thu very earth rcfased to harbour hi< wretched ; body and a if Nature herself were imbued with tho sentiment of his countrymen towards this poor, weak, desperate, and dishonored tool and victim of Dublin Castle officialism. It would tax the powei of a Dante's pen to record the horrors of that grave. Mine is miserably inadequate to thotasl;. Upon tho bare, leafless, lifeloss breast of a sandhill, where tho whirlwinds eddy round like evil genii, and where the scorching, Peering, noisome desert blast sweeps across to the sea with the /vail and shriek of a banshee, lies a heap of blood-red stones. Upon one of those stones some passer-by has scratched with a rusty nail " Carey, tho infonnor !" Nothing more. Such is the tomb, and such tho epitaph. Around lie the bones of negro convicts who havo Hull'ered the extreme penalty of the law, whilo the only shade that ever stays over that grave comes as tho scttiug sun sinks to his iiery couch behind the grim aud gastly structure of the adjoining goal. In that coicpany, amid such surroundings, the body" of the Irishman who lured his countrymen to crime aud sold them to a barbarous death tor English gold awaits the last trumpet's sound. Was over awful lessou road in mora awful way—an epitome of English rulo in Ireland ? The informer's deadliest foe could wish him no worse fate. Let us hope that his poor soul has found moro morey and less justice at, Jhrjy's fountain hoad.