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New Zealand Mail, Issue 930, 27 December 1889, Page 2

Sun Fire Office. —We have received a copy of a very neatly designed office calendar issued by the Sun Fire office through their agents, J. H. Bethune and C®. A Suggestion. “A New Zealander" writes from Palmerston North suggesting that a fitting celebration of the Jubilee of the Colony would be the releasing of all long-sentenced who had served (say; Half their sentence, and against whom there‘ were no “ black marks' also any others who might be recommended by the Minister of Justice. The writer also suggests that allbankrupta who had filed three months previous to the Jubilee, and against whom no charge of J fraud) bad been preferred, should be released by proclamation in the Government Gazette.” We are afraid that the first suggestion of the writer if hardly advisable ; at the same time thei;e. are prisoners condemned fo? debt apt), trifling expenses to whom pardpn plight baps be extended,