COUNTRY NEWS.
NGARUAWAHIA. Our town constable, McCabe, has received orders to proceed to the Kaipara. We are sorry to part with him, as he is respected by all classes. He has always done his duty honestly. He never got excited and apprehended the first mau he came across for being drunk, and when half-way to the lock-up suddenly found the mau sober and released him. —I'liere is one thiug that seems a mystery to us all here, —the gaol. Of what use it is no one can tell or imagine. We all remember Morgan's murder. Kothicg has been done to keep prisoners secure. Only a few days ago a prisoner got rather rowdy, but there was no cell safe enough to hold him without being handcuffed, and he had to be sent *:o Auckland for safe keeping. There is a gaoler and warder, but the warder has to do tow:a duty. If the Government would close the gaol and re-open the hospital they would be doing the right thing for the Waikato, and I hope yet to see it so.—[Own Correspondent, December 13.]
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5018, 15 December 1877, Page 3
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