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NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 5

Commenting on 1 "Truth's" disclos-* ures of the prison system at Lytteli ton Gaol, the ''Ran'g>iora Standard" l says —'"fine subjects dealt with rare* ly ever see the light of day, but i* there is any truth about the disclosures he . 'has made, it may xesult ip an alteration of the system. Ventilation of what is necessarily a closed! department, oa;n scarcely result suvetvti but good. When the "writer deals with the gaol hospital, and declares that a rain with "a terrible hacking cough is- not placed m that ihstitution, but kept m a cell, the- voice of the public (wibaoh. should be the press)! ought to be raised against such a system." . . There , was quite a sensation m a. fashionable Ohiistchurch sulwrb a few* nights since. A party was disifupbedi 'by a •neiigWbor (a fore:"HßiM rushing, m- a/iid' asserting that there was a 'burglar m his howsc hi'dnng under •. hds^daupjvter Mary's bed. Ttoa gentlemen of the. party (one arming himself \with a revolver) immediatelsr set out to capture the tti-ief, and sure, enough there he was under the btA ffi? the aggrieved , man's daughter- A f t«f a lot nf persuasion, .mostly wltli t!»Q revolver, the wbuld-be thiof came out,, amd loand behold, it was none ,othe* than the excited fpreißner's fion-jri-law. What the sneak-thief.. wanteiCyß why he should hive got into his teA tlier-in-law's tycme has not transpired, but it is very lucky that it .was his faither-in-law or he would haVo beta doiug Vm& by this..