NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10069, 9 August 1895, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, Thursday. The Herald, referring to the Sew" Zealand tariff proposals, states that, comparing the present tai iff with the,tApro- • . posed to be Babstituted, there h^jdly seems mnch to gain by the remissions or ißcreaaee. Many of the Increases, if operative at' all, will be' eo ayalnat Anitrallan exporters. However t ,the change? are not extreme, and Ipdeed 9«m cantlotja „ and tentative. Perhaps; 1 for the gain; the' disturbance.. to busines'SiOiay be dearly-^ . bought, as the experience in .Yletyrfa'is that seektag revenue tbiongh the .Cnttoms .' by Increasing the " daty'df ten lowetf'recetptß by checking imports. ' ' It is improbable that- any member IS" will resign in favor of Sir George Bibbs./ -^ Mr Abigail, in his , arllolea on prison '' V reform, dealing with solitary confinement, - - states there are few men who- go through „ i the treatment, however Btrong'atjjhrting, ■' bnt come out more or leas aflfiked fa - D)lod. Of coana the anthorltiet take do notice of this while they appear harmless, and itia only when they dcvelope danger* oas tendencies that they are sent under observation, or when they get noisy and scream cat, as mapy. do. . Men who aia doing their nine months' solitary in tha same wldr have to listen (o.tbe cries and ahrleka.of the unfortunate madmen below. He regards it as ttne that many men are forced into orime . arid criminal assooiations by a first acjag* aharee, atid says many risen tod him. how the Bret bjostlba bad plunged them into wrongdnliig, and how gaol aasociaVions otoshed out of their nature all that was tight arid good, and now Bay that white they live they will so ■ tar as able pnnlsb sooiety for tbo wrongs ~ it baa done them. The writer continue! that, from his own observation, the terrible indictment 1b an absolnte trntb.