SULLIVAN THE APPROVER.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1753, 18 March 1874, Page 2

SULLIVAN THE APPRO VER.

[southern cross, mlr'ch 11.] ; From what took place yesterday, in re-? gard to this nowriptpriuusscamp', it would appear that the impression created in the public mind that he was a free man was altogether a mistake. The Dunedin authorities finding him an unruly and; troublesome fellow, were evidently anxious to get rid of him, and to accomplish this simply gave him an opportunity toescape from the Colony. After • his arrival in Auckland, and when he "failed to get away by the steamer for San Francisco, he one day slipped away from the custody; of ) his keeper, arid was afterwards ' arrested < by the city police. ;; For about a fortnight; jjast he has, been kept at the police, station as a prisoner of the Crown jyilegaily at large, On Monday last, a warrant from His Excellency the Governor 1 was received by the police . authorities, 1 • transferring Sullivan from the gaol at Dunedin' to the common gaol at Mount Eden, during the remainder of 1 his sentence, which terminates only with his natural =life. ; - YeS-^ terday morning he was : conveyed to Mount Eden Gaol, and safely handed .. over to the care of Captain Eyre. •; ;fli& Remarks about the manner in which ttieV. gaol duties are carried ; oiit' at Dunedin are amusing, and : he evidently has not a very high opinion of the strictness of the discipline observed there. He states that there is ho place for solitary Confinement in the Dunedin institution, and if Sullivan's descriptions are. not far too highly, colored, itWtime that a little more strict-? ness were observed by the gaol authprities^at Dunedin. He wiil evidently find a ' different state of things, at, M^ount.Eden, even though the buildinsc is but 'composed of wood. We understand that Sullivan's I wife and family are in Australia, and it . was his desire to get them to join him, '.'^ and not to go to San Francisco' or Britain. 1 ' Xt is to be hoped that a strict' watenwir' l}e kept upon him here, and .that 'his-first:-attempts af fostering discontent amongst his fellow-prisoners, or plottingiothet mis-.;-, chief, will meet w,ith thai, prompt and decisive punishment which a callous brute like him can only understand^

• The Guildfbrd correspondent of the Mount Alexander ilfat^giyes the following... acsoiirit of an underground episode in tlie? life of a miner .:— •* An adventure of a~ most unusual character was' encountered Inst weekly, a Greek miner, residing near Tarilta. The '/man.is what is technically termed a ' batterj' • that is, working' by' ' hiiriaelf, and, in pursuit of his'calling, he '* went down an old abandoned shaft to get ,. ; 1 into a neighboring , drive that had . an / outlet. Finding the communication filled/ up with headings he began to shovel back/ in the shaft and thus slowly worked hfa : way to where he wished to go. After hours of hard work he found his candle burnt out, himself cramped for room, and the drive overhead, which had previously been supported by the headings, giving way and slowly dropping on and about. ' him, and filling up the small space he had left. He went down "the shaft on-Tues-day, and emerged from his tomb on Saturday. His sufferings, his fears, and his struggles darirg that time it js. impossible ... to .describe. Owing to the kind.and.uar^ unremitting, attention of Mr Bqtterel and his family the/;man has nearly recovered from the effects, of his incarceration: under ground. In justice Ito .the : man's neigh> L bors it must be stated that when- he wa&i; missed search was madej and-the- very — shaft he had went:down was looked 'ihtoi_j| but, as the bottom was filled, and no sign K. of a drive, it was passed by. The ! b6Vied man heard the footsteps above, and repeatedly cried out, but was not audible, the surrounding earth drowning his voice to those above." ' ' J "y ' <a

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