NORFOLK ISLAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5505, 4 March 1896, Page 3

NORFOLK ISLAND.

I PROCEEDINGS OF 'THE COMMISSION. [Special to Pbess Association. J . ' SYDNEYj Mabch 4. No information caai Ibe gathered from the Norfolk Island Commission until the report nas >een presented ito the Governor.. l , From o&er sources it has been learned tha^ at the fabEo meeting, Mr Oliver, the chairman, had the-law,s ■ that are to, be enforced read, incliiding; those approved by Lordlioftiuß in 1885, which the authorities had entirely ignored. ' Mr Oliver, in liis' speech^ pointed out that ' the islands was in a most deplorable con-, dition, crime rampant and undieeked, the iaoxals of. the younger people aa low see \ they possibly could be ; the admhustration i of justice was a farce> and the irfttcile affair; nothing 1 but a huge burlesque, and that butifor these things the visit pf the Com- ; mission would have been unnecessary. One of the surprises of the trip was on the first arrival of the Royalist. Instead, of, as ' expected, a number of the principal people being there to meet the ship, not a soui was on the jetty. One might have supposed that an enemy had arrived, and that the people had fled. There was a better feeling later on, but it appeared as if the islanders took tie opportunity /to mark their disapproval of the. visit. 'j ...