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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6770, 6 September 1893, Page 3

There were no executions and no death sentences in 1892. At the commencement of the year 472 males and 62 females were confined in the gaols, and at its close 435 males and 25 females ; 3302 males and 780 females passed through the prisons, as against 3452 males and 845 females during the previous year. Though the prisons are improper places for the detention of lunatics, 53 males and 18 female supposed lunatics were detained in the prisons during 1892. There was a decrease of 19 prisoners undergoing penal servitude, which showed that serious crimes are still decreasing. Among previously convicted prisoners there wos a decrease of 76 males, but an increase of 59 females, showing that there still remains in the colony a band of unreclaimable and hopeless women, who spend most of their days in prison. Sir Walter Simpson imagines golf to have been invented by a lonely shepherd, who had nothing better to do than to knock round stones into a rabbit hole with his crook. A pleasant surprise has come to Mr 13urt, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade. A gentleman who recently died had a great admiration for the miners' leader, and left him a legacy of £2000.