AN INTERESTING RETURN.

Press, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5361, 30 November 1882, Page 2

AN INTERESTING RETURN.

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[VBQM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, November 29. _ A very curious return has just been com- * piled in accordance with an order msdo before the House of Representatives on the 3rd of August, on the motion of Mc Feldwick, that there be laid on the tehfea. return showing the number of prisoapjti'a the gaols of the colony to whom hnpri&Sment, in addition to the has been awarded since into forte of the Prisoners Act of 1873, such return to set forth the Johns of the original sentences, dates of the original co_vxo- t _ tions, term or terms of additional imprison-, raenta, for what offences and by whom awarded, also the date of release after the Completion of the original and additional gaol sentences. The figures are very remarkable. It appears that the number so detained beyond the expiration of original sentences is one each in Napier, Nelson and Timaru gaols, three in Wellington and Lyttelton, five 'in :Addington, Wanganui and New. Plymouth^'fifteen in Invercargill, eighteen in Auckland, nil in Hokitika, but in Dunedin gaol the extraordinary number of 163 j total, 220. The Dunedin list occupies eleven full pages. Theoffences master > specified are—"ldleness," "insubordina* • turn," " malingering/ *'refusing to work/*' j f'disobeying orders," <tc. In some oatet-' the prisoners were detained two or throa 1 / months beyond' the expiration of. ton, original sentence. _ , '■ "