REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PRISONS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1884 Session I, H-05

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1884. NEW ZEALAND.

REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PRISONS.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

The Inspbctob of Peisons to the Hon. the. Mikistee of Justice. Sic, — Office of Inspector of Prisons, Wellington, Ist June, 1884. In presenting this my fourth annual report on the prisons of the colony, I have the honour to inform you that in the year ended the 31st December last I visited the various prisons tin the dates stated in the attached table marked L. I have on all occasions found them kept clean and in good condition, due attention paid to the sanitary arrangements, and a high state of discipline maintained. My method of visitation satisfies me that the condition in which I have found these institutions on the occasions of my inspections is that which I believe always exists. I have also inspected as many of the smaller police gaols during the past year as the time at my disposal would permit. 2. The daily supplies of rations, and the periodical supplies of fuel, clothing, and necessaries, for use in the prisons, have invariably been of good quality and according to sample. The rations are inspected daily on delivery by the Gaoler or Chief Warder, and the right of having their food weighed in their presence is accorded to the prisoners should they desire it. 3. The clothing and necessaries both for the officers and prisoners are obtained from local tradesmen by public tender, and there have been no complaints as regards these articles. A board of survey, consisting of officers detailed by roster in each prison, carefully examines and reports upon them before they are issued for use or admitted into store. 4. One escape took place during the year, viz., at Dunedin. This prisoner, who was working in the vicinity of the prison, managed to elude the vigilance of the warder in charge of him, and effect his escape, but, after being absent thirty hours, was recaptured by the police at Mullock's Gully, nineteen miles from Dunedin, and brought back to the prison the following day. 5. Table A shows that the prisoners have generally enjoyed good health. Two deaths have occurred (exclusive of one suicide), one at Auckland and one at Lyttelton. Inquests were held in each case in accordance with the provisions of the Prisons Act, and satisfactory verdicts returned. 6. The only case of suicide I have to report as occurring in prisons during the year was at Nelson, to which allusion will be found further on. 7. Three death-sentences have been passed during the year—at Christchurch, Auckland, and Wanganui respectively; but in each case His Excellency the Governor was pleased to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life, and there have been no executions. 8. It is with much satisfaction that I am able to report that all the prisons are now worked under the same regulations, and the hours of duty for the officers are similar, as far as circumstances will admit. A copy of the daily routine now in force is attached, marked N. 9. All complaints and requests, which have been very few, made to me by prisoners, have been patiently listened to, and action taken where I deemed necessary, and all their petitions have been presented to His Excellency the Governor for his decision. 10. A reference to Table A shows that at the commencement of the past year there were 527 male and 103 female prisoners confined in the thirteen larger prisons of the colony, and at the close of the same year 505 males and 101 females, showing a decrease of 22 males and 2 females. In my last year's report it is shown that in the year 1882 there passed through these prisons 3,732 males and 937 females, while the table now under reference gives the numbers for 1883 as 3,822 males and 1,059 females respectively, being an actual increase of cases dealt with of 90 males and 122 females; but this increase is entirely due to offences committed by Bhortsentenced prisoners, who were tried for trivial offences. It will be noticed that the number of sentences of three months' hard labour and under has risen from 2,089 males and 696 females in 1882 to 2,235 males and 813 females in 1883, an increase of 144 males and 117 females. Explanatory of this increase, it is worthy of notice that at the criminal sessions in Auckland in April, last year, a batch of twenty-four Maoris were convicted of assaulting a Government official; and, further, that trivial offenders are increased by the constant arrival of the direct steamers from England, with crew and firemen refractory and refusing to work, who are usually sentenced to be kept in prison till the ship is ready again to proceed to sea. 11. During the past year the daily average number of prisoners in gaols, has fallen, from 571 - 5 males and 96-4 females in 1882, to 5372 males and 99-6 females, being a decrease of 343 males, with an increase of 3-2 females, making an average decrease of 311 prisoners in 1883.

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12. According to figures obtained from the Begistrar-General, the ascertained population of the colony at the close of the year 1882 was 307,671 males and 254,133 females, total 561,804 persons; and the number of prisoners at the same date was 527 males and 103 females, total 630. At the end of the year 1883 the population was 319,033 males and 265,941 females, total 584,974 persons; and the number of prisoners at that date was 505 males and 101 females, total 606. The average number of prisoners to population was therefore as follows :In 1882, •171 per cent.; in 1883, -103 per cent. 13. In the year 1882, 113 male and 3 female debtors were detained in gaols, against 111 males and no females in the past year ; and in 1882 there were 48 male and 4 female lunatics transferred to asylums from gaols, as against 56 males and 13 females in 1883. Again, the prisoners acquitted after remand are shown as 410 males and 62 females in 1882, as against 414 males and 64 females last year, giving for 1883 a decrease of 2 male and 3 female debtors, an increase of 8 male and 9 female lunatics, and an increase of 4 male and 2 female prisoners released on acquittal after remand. 14. As regards the number of prisoners sentenced to penal servitude in the prisons during the year, Table H shows there were on the last day of 1883 201, as against 219 at the close of the previous year, or a net decrease of 18 prisoners, or about 9 per cent., in the more serious crimes for the year. • 15. In a former report I drew attention to what I still consider the objectionable system of confining penal-servitude and hard-labour prisoners in the same institution. I believe this subject is one which is well worthy of the attention of the Legislature, with a view of deciding whether or not this practice shall continue. The universal opinion of those who have studied this important question is that penal-servitude prisoners should be located in separate prisons, and their treatment made of a more rigorous description than that of merely hard-labour ones : this is the rule and practice in Great Britain, and, indeed, in the penal establishments of all well-regulated States. 16. The progressive-stage system of classification, now in force in all the prisons of the colony, works well as far as it goes ; but, owing to the unsuitability of most of the buildings for carrying it out, it may well be termed only an initial step, and does but little toward effecting that desirable end, the reformation of the criminals. In illustration of this progressive-stage system as now in operation, two examples may be taken. A, an old, hardened, and expert criminal, receives a sentence of five years' penal servitude for robbery with violence; and at the same session B, a man of superior stamp who has never before seen the inside of a prison, receives a similar sentence for, say, forgery. As long as both these criminals conduct themselves according to rules, they remain in the same stages of classification, and A, from his long experience of prison discipline, is unlikely to offend against the prison rules. These two individuals advance in class year by year together, and as time goes on are associated on the works, and in some prisons, where there is not accommodation for the requisite separation, in the same cells. The consequence is that A has every opportunity, which he is not likely to miss, of educating B in every description of crime of which his experience has made him master. As the result of this tutoring, B leaves the prison a much more degraded and worse man than when he entered it, and may probably soon again lapse into crime. Thus, an offender who may be only a criminal by a first offence, and might never relapse but for his prison association, is likely by that baneful experience to be transformed into an habitual offender. Now, if the reformation of the criminal class—and here I specially allude to the " first-offence class"—is worthy of consideration at all, I emphatically contend that prisoners undergoing penal servitude should be consigned to an establishment entirely separate from other prisoners, where they would be treated with strict justice tempered by consideration and humanity, under charge of officers fitted to be intrusted with such large powers as punitive discipline requires, and at the same time qualified on occasions to administer advice in a spirit of kindness, which is perfectly consonant with the exercise of strict prison discipline. The most economical and best penal institution that could be established would, I believe, be in some island such as Stewart or D'Urville, .where stone, minerals, flax, clay for bricks, &c, can be found, and might be turned to good account by the convicts; and in addition there might be a farm connected with the prison, as at Borstal, Woking, Dartmoor, and many other longestablished convict prisons in England, where men when due for release would, from the agricultural knowledge acquired in gaol, be made useful to themselves and to the community, and thus saved from falling into a career of crime. An establishment of this description should, if properly managed, be self-supporting, and at the same time afford the opportunity of separating firstconvicted prisoners, except perhaps receivers of stolen goods and those guilty of unnatural crimes and indecency, from the other criminals, which is the great step in the direction of classification that should be aimed at by all prison administration. It is interesting to note that there have been 81 sentences of penal servitude passed in the colony during the year 1883, and 3 commuted death sentences, giving a total of 84 cases. 17. The past year has been marked by the operation in this department of the Prisons Amendment Act of last session of Parliament, which opens a new era in the system of discipline, and, so far, has worked admirably. By this Act it is provided that all aggravated prison offences shall, after being inquired into in the prison by a Visiting Justice, be reheard by a Eesident Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace in open Court before any punishment can be inflicted. Yet, with a daily average of 636-8 prisoners during the past year, it has only been found necessary to bring forward the small number of six such cases for trial and decision by outside Magistrates. The amending Act has been in operation only since the 10th August last, but its influence has been salutary and valuable. Table M shows that, with a greater number of persons passing through the prisons, as compared with the previous year, the number of prison offences has been very materially reduced, more especially as regards those offences which are classed as " serious." The total number of prison punishments in 1882 was 295, while in 1883 they fell to 238, an actual reduction of 57. It will also be observed that, while in 1882 the serious offences were 81, they were in 1883 only 24. As a statistical commentary on the necessity for changes in Dunedin and Lyttelton Prisons, it may here be mentioned that, of the total number of prison offences in 1882, no

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fewer than 88 occurred in Dunedin, against 37 in 1883; and in Lyttelton 78 in 1882, as against 43 in 1883. Of the 81 serious offences in 1882, 24 occurred in Dunedin, equal to the whole number in all the prisons for the year now reported on, as against Bin 1883. In Lyttelton the serious offences were 29 in 1882, and in 1883 they were only 14. I think it must be admitted that these statistics justify—if justification is needed —the special action which I deemed it my duty to take with respect to these prisons, and prove the advantages which have arisen from the new Act and regulations. The increase in offences in Auckland is due to the fact that formerly the Gaoler, subject to the approval of the Visiting Justices, was in the habit of giving trivial punishments, which were not included in the return furnished by him, and therefore omitted in the tables of my last report; but this practice having been put a stop to naturally caused more cases to come under the hands of the Visiting Justices, and all offences are now dealt with by them. 18. There have been 48 reports against prison officers in 1883, as against 36 in the previous year; but many were merely for trivial neglects of duty, and none were for offences of a very serious nature. It is, I think, deserving of notice that not a single case of drunkenness is recorded against prison officers in the past year, and their conduct has generally been commendable. The system of transferring officers from prison to prison has been attended with beneficial results to the service. There is a long list of names registered for appointments, from which the most suitable and meritorious candidates are selected as vacancies occur. Many of the older officers have passed the limit of age at which is to be found that real fitness for the arduous and incessantly vigilant duties they are required to perform. Naturally those officers are loth to retire from positions which they have so long and not unworthily filled, but the necessity of a strict service should always be paramount, and override personal and sentimental considerations. I have, therefore, to repeat the opinion I expressed in my report presented three years ago, that, in cases of officers whose age and infirmity can be shown to interfere with efficiency, these officials should be directed to retire. 19. It was stated in my last report that numbers of the officers did not sufficiently study the characters of the prisoners under their charge. A melancholy example of this occurred in the Nelson Prison in the murder of a warder by a prisoner, and the suicide of the murderer. This convict was under a life sentence for manslaughter at the Lyell, on the west coast of the Middle Island, the case presenting features of peculiar ferocity. Clearly such a man should not have been placed in a position to have access to dangerous weapons. Yet both before and after the trial he occupied the position of cook. The fatal sequel showed the impropriety of such a selection; but, though painful in itself, this occurrence has not been without a good effect in the direction required, and officers now devote more careful study to the peculiarities and temperaments of prisoners. A pleasing circumstance connected with this fatality, and one which affords me gratification to record, is that the officers of the department all over the colony raised by subscription among themselves a sum of upward of £290 for the benefit of the widow and family of the murdered man. 20. Table X contains a record of the visits of the Visiting Justices to the prisons during the year 1883, from which it will be seen that these visits have been regular and frequent. Agreeably to the Act passed last session of Parliament, Visitors have now been appointed in addition to the Visiting Justices. The duty of these Visitors is to hear any complaints which prisoners may have to make, and thus afford to prisoners another channel of communication, in addition to that of the Visiting Justices, or of the Inspector. The right to visit all prisons at all reasonable hours is also given to members of both Houses of Parliament, as well as to all Justices of the Peace. It would be well, in my opinion, if the public generally would exhibit a greater interest in prisons, and their inmates and management, than is at present displayed. Beyond the visits of relatives or friends of prisoners, very few of the outside public ever cross the threshold of our gaols, although at all convenient seasons the Gaolers, by instructions, are ready and willing to admit any respectable citizen who may desire to examine personally the interior economy of prison life and discipline. The visiting-books of other public institutions, such as hospitals, lunatic asylums, and industrial schools, show that in these and their inmates greater interest is taken than in the inmates and working of prisons. If more attention were paid to prison-visiting by the public, I believe that not only would this general interest prove an encouragement to the officers, but would also have a beneficial effect on the prisoners who are working out their weary sentences, and who would feel that, though secluded by their own faults from the community against which they have sinned, yet nevertheless they are no r t forgotten. At the same time, such a system of visiting would remove the opinion which is current amongst many that there is something dark and mysterious in prison management, while on the contrary nothing occurs that may not be fully published abroad. 21. Table F shows a decrease in the past year of 10 in the number of juvenile criminals received into the prisons, those under ten years of age being 25 in 1883, as against 35 in 1882; but in those from ten to fifteen years of age there is an increase of 10 on the previous year, the numbers being 95 in 1882, against 105 in 1883 ; while in those aged from fifteen to twenty years there is also an increase, the numbers being 250 in 1882, as against 261 in 1883, giving a total increase during the year 1883 of 11 prisoners under the age of twenty. These statistics again convince me of the absolute and urgent necessity of establishing reformatories, to which I drew attention last year. All authorities on prison matters are unanimous in their opinion that gaols are unsuitable and improper places for the detention of boys and girls of tender years. 22. As regards the financial table given under heading B, it will be found that the prisoners were maintained last year at a gross cost of £55 11s. 6d. each, as against £51 7s. 10d. for the previous year, and at a net cost of £45 9s. 7d. as against £44 14s. Id. in 1882. These totals are made up as follows: Staff supervision, £35 10s.; maintenance, £16 ss. 6d.; incidental, £3 16s. The proportional increase in last year's expenditure is due to several causes : First, a reduction in the number of prisoners, without its being possible to make any immediate reduction in the staff, or fuel and lighting expenses ; second, the item for conveyance of officers is largely increased in consequence of the requirements of the service demanding the transfer of many officers and their families; third, the system introduced last year of giving gratuities to prisoners on discharge, and sending them back

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to the localities from which they were committed. The medicines, medical comforts, and tobacco at Lyttelton and Mount Cook appear very high as compared with Auckland, where the daily average number of prisoners is considerably larger. In the gross total cost per prisoner, New Plymouth is the highest, at £90 Bs. 5d., and Mount Cook the lowest, at £41 9s. lid. It will, however, be observed that, wherever there has been an increase on the previous year's totals of the gross cost per prisoner, in every case there will be found to be a corresponding falling-off in the daily average number of prisoners as compared with the year 1882. Two large items may be noticed under the head of "Furniture" at Dunedin and Addington ; but in explanation of these I would state that at the former the new female quarters have been entirely furnished, and a prison-van has been purchased for the latter during the year. 23. As the falling-off in the number of prisoners throughout the colony still continues, and now appears to be steady, a considerable reduction in the staff at the various prisons has been and is still being made. 24. The receipts for prison labour, road-metal, needlework, maintenance of naval prisoners, &C, for the past year, amounted to £6,428 ss. Bd.: of this sum Dunedin is credited with only £94 145., and against it there is a railway charge of £218 2s. 6d. for conveying prisoners to and from work. This small return as receipts is due to the inability of the Portobello Eoad Board, for whom the prisoners were working, to pay for the labour monthly as agreed upon, and at the close of the year that body owed the department some £300, which, had it been credited, would have materially reduced the net cost of each prisoner in Dunedin. At Hokitika and Wanganui, when prison labour is available, it is given to the Corporation without charge; and at New Plymouth and Mount Cook the prisoners are entirely employed in building new prisons: these establishments therefore show very small or no receipts. 25. The principal works carried on at the prisons during the year have been: At Auckland, building new prison and breaking up road-metal; at Dunedin, working for Portobello Eoad Board and Port Chalmers Corporation; at Invercargill, levelling for Corporation; at Lyttelton, reclaiming land at Sticking Point, where an embankment of about 34,000 cubic yards has been made, and an area of one and a half acres reclaimed ; at Napier, quarrying and breaking road-metal; at Timaru, levelling for Corporation ; at Wellington Terrace, excavating for Mount Cook buildings; at Mount Cook, brick-making and building (about one and a half millions of bricks have been made, a patent Hoffman's kiln built, and the foundations of the new prison as far as the damp course completed at this prison by the Mount Cook and Terrace prisoners). 26. The recommendations of the Committee of the House of Eepresentatives last session regarding the introduction into some prison of the manufacture of New Zealand flax for export have not been lost sight of; but after careful consideration it was found that New Plymouth is the only prison advantageously situated for carrying on such an experiment, and, in consequence of there being no prisoners available for such labour, no further steps could be taken in this matter. I have, &c, A. Hume, Captain, 'The Hon. the Minister of Justice, Wellington. Inspector of Prisons.

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TABLE A. Number of Prisoners in the Large Prisons, and their Disposal, for the Year ending 31st December, 1883.

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State of Prisons. Addington. Auckland. Dunedin. M. F. 75 39 415 263 Hokitika. Invereargill 1 Lyttelton. Napier. Nelson. New Plymouth. Timaru. Wanganui. I Wellington (Mt, Cook). I Wellington (Terrace). Total. In prison at beginning of year Received during year M. F. 24 21 476 220 M. F. 123 18 836 208 M. F. 14 5 54 34 M. F. 13 .. 162 22 M. F. 108 .. 324 .. M. F. 19 2 146 9 M. F. 7 4 60 3 M. F. 18 4 75 13 M. F. 15 2 166 28 M. F. 10 1 169 31 M. F. 51 .. 37 .. M. F. 50 7 375 125 M. F. 527 101 3,295 95( Total 500 241 175 22 432 .. 165 11 67 7 93 17 181 30 179 32 83 .. 959 226 490 302 j 68 39 425 132 I DlSCHABQBD. I. J I i I i . [3,822 1,05! Debtors Lunatics transferred to asylums On bail Acquitted and after remand On remission of sentence After serving sentence Transferred to other prisons or police Pardoned Executed Died naturally Committed suicide 40 .. 3 1 3 .. 66 17 4 8 319 190 42 .. 27 6 1 10 .. 2 3 4 1 .. 1 .. 7 .. 8 1 34 33 3 .. 7 .. 20 1 3 .. 2 .. 15 .. 66 .. 197 .. 49 2 .. 2 5 .. 5 3 4 .. 3 .. 10 .. 10 4 1 .. 1 6 1 41 3 33 1 258 114 19 .. 1 1 Ill 56 13 12 1 414 64 290 57 2,235 818 194 9 2 1 138 14 78 25 653 157 19 .. 1 .. 40 14 33 16 340 238 11 4 1 27 7 .. 95 21 8 .. is" 2 14 1 99 8 12 .. 9 5 39 6 2 1 3 1 16 5 8 2 45 7 4 .. 22 5 4 2 136 22 4 .. 18 2 9 110 20 14 4 2l" .. 3" .. - - - - 1" .. - 1 .. - - 1 - - l" - ■•' - 477 216 23 25 - •• •• •• •■ •• Total discharged In prison at end of year 833 197 126 29 437 275 53 27 58 34 10 5 68 39 164 22 11 .. 333 .. 99 .. •• 144 11 21 .. 61 6 7 83 10 17 173 8 29 1 171 8 30 2 24 64 359 120 66 12 3,317 958 505 101 Total dealt with 500 241 959 226 175 22 432 .. 165 11 Greatest number of either sex in prison at any time during year (not necessarily on same date) Least ditto .. .. Daily average Greatest number of both sexes in prison together Least ditto 490 302 67 7 93 17 i 181 30 179 32 88 .. 425 132 3,822 1,059 37 32 12 13 21 22 168 34 107 17 134 25 82 41 47 21 62 31 21 8 9 1 13 4 28 3 6 1 14-3 -7 120 .. 91 107 .. 28 3 13 .. 19-5 -7 16 2 9 4 2 26 4 7 .. 14-3 1-2 22 4 9 5 1 3 25 5 6 1 14-3 1-4 67 .. 51 .. 59-8 ... 77 16 47 5 60 8-6 537-2 ' 99-6 56 28 197 128 117 69 I 24 28 7 120 91 28 13 19 2 28 7 24 7 28 8 67 51 92 58 Prisoners ill 48 hours or over Admitted to hospital Daily average on sick list 7 3 •3 12 3 •6 40 40 2 11 4 1 ,1 43 47 5 2 1-1 -6 5 1 2 ., 49 7 2 10 .. 5 1 7 * 8 1 2 2 .. 1-6 .. 42 3 2 .. 1-8 .. 255 78 60 9 9-4 2-4 -, ■■!} ... •5 .. •3 •1

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TABLE B. Expenditure under the different Heads of Service in the Larger Prisons for the Year ending 31st December, 1883.

Eatcfpt in " cost per prisoner " all items are stated at nearest shilling. * Includes £218 2s. 6d., fares of hard-labour party at Port Chalmers.

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Addington. Auckland. Dunedin. Hokitika. Invereargill. Lyttelton. Napier. Nelson. New Plymouth. Timarn. Wanganui. Wellington (Mount Cook). Wellington (Terrace). Total. Daily average number of prisoners \ -n- 8 ,'" 21 22 134 25 62 31 13 4 143 "7 107 19-5 •7 9 2 143 1-2 9 3 143 1-4 59-8 60 8-6 537-2 99-6 Total 43 159 93 17 15 107 20-2 11 15-5 12 15-7 59-8 68 6 636-8 Heads of Shevicb. Staff: Salaries and allowances Uniforms £ s. d. 1,202 13 0 34 10 0 £ ». d. 3,829 12 0 290 3 0 £ s. d. 3,568 1 0 147 19 0 £ s. d. 796 3 0 35 0 0 £ s. d. 853 8 0 22 3 0 £ s. d. 3,679 11 0 180 7 0 £ s. d. 970 1 0 56 14 0 £ s. d. 555 18 0 21 10 0 £ s. d. 948 15 0 39 16 0 £ s. d. 653 15 0 31 6 0 £ s. d. 686 14 0 52 19 0 £ «. d. 1,037 19 0 179 7 0 £ s. d 2,587 5 0 144 16 0 £ s. d. 21,369 15 0 1.236 10 0 Total Cost per prisoner 1,237 3 0 4,119 15 0 3,716 0 0 831 3 0 875 11 3,859 18 0 1,026 15 0 577 8 0 988 11 685 1 0 739 13 0 1,217 6 0 2,732 1 0 22,606 5 28 15 25 18 2 39 19 2 48 17 10 58 7 5 36 1 50 16 7 52 9 10 63 15 57 47 2 3 20 i 39 16 6 35 10 Maintenance : Rations ... Fuel and light Bedding and clothing ... ... ... Medicines and medical comforts, including tobacco Furniture Soap, scouring and cleaning goods 304 14 0 110 10 0 48 16 0 1,288 10 0 134 0 0 553 2 0 709 14 0 139 18 0 361 16 0 202 10 0 45 6 0 153 14 0 138 1 0 63 9 0 10 18 0 851 7 0 345 2 0 356 10 0 167 19 0 47 1 0 69 4 0 119 15 0 65 8 0 25 10 0 178 2 0 47 11 0 55 19 0 109 7 0 38 7 0 23 11 0 111 7 0 32 3 0 18 18 0 434 0 0 156 18 0 271 7 0 508 3 0 251 4 0 243 9 0 5,123 9 1.476 17 2,192 14 29 . 0 137 16 0 23 9 0 78 6 0 78 18 0 37 14 0 140 12 0 231 18 0 18 16 0 26 5 0 6 17 0 9 18 0 5 17 0 14 2 0 7 15 0 173 16 0 1 16 0 86 14 0 7 10 8 0 0 22 5 0 4 8 0 36 7 0 8 0 0 5 7 0 13 5 0 2 11 0 8 2 0 14 12 0 3 19 0 3 13 0 194 4 0 96 4 C 2 18 0 17 13 0 823 13 511 0 228 1 5"2 0 9 10 0 Total 654 9 0 2,170 10 0 1,602 14 0 444 10 0 240 2 0 1,815 5 0 296 7 0 245 6 0 331 6 0 195 3 0 184 12 0 1,065 19 0 1,119 11 0 10,365 14 Cost per prisoner 15 4 5 13 13 0 17 4 8 26 2 10 16 0 16 19 3 14 13 22 6 0 21 16 11 15 17 16 6 16 6 5 16 5 Incidental : Rates, rent, &c. Conveyance of officers and prisoners Contingencies, including gratuities to prisoners on discharge ... 13 12 0 51 15 0 22 12 0 143 0 0 *411 7 0 31 7 0 27 15 0 100 0 0 7 10 0 27 6 0 67 18 0 23 10 0 20 0 0 5 8 0 18 0 0 35 11 0 5611 0 18 0 0 100 13 0 99 14 0 1,082 1 0 49 6 0 401 3 0 123 2 0 27 17 0 35 8 0 206 1 0 6 16 0 26 11 0 58 4 0 3 16 0 38 2 0 141 14 0 119 5 0 1,237 5 0 Total 114 13 0 566 15 0 534 9 0 59 4 0 63 3 0 306 41 12 0 94 9 0 81 14 0 29 4 0 91 13 0 198 5 0 237 18 0 2,419 0 Cost per prisoner Total expenses Gross cost per prisoner 2,006 5 0 46 13~T 2 13 4 6,857 3 11 0 0 5,853 3 0 5 14 10 1,334 17 0 3 9 8 1,178 16 0 4 4 2 5,981 2 17 4 0 1,364 14 0 917 8 11 3 0 1,401 11 5 5 909 8 0 2 8 8 1,015 18 0 5 16 9 2,481 10 0 3 6 4 4,089 10 0 3 9 4 35,390 19 3 16 43 2 6 62 18 8 78 10 4 78 11 55 17 11 67 11 83 7 90 8 5 75 15 8 64 14 1 41 9 11 59 12 3 55 11 Deduct : Cash received for maintenance, labour, &c. Transfer credits per Treasury statement ... Washing and needlework for other prisons Total 16 12 0 105 1 0 58 10 0 1,069 10 0 1,215 1 0 I 94 14 0 0 6 0 f171 7 0 . 12 5 0 3,430 0 0 121 2 0 20 5 0 79 0 0 1 17 0 5 7 0 27 8 0 ... 180 3 2,284 11 94 14 0 0 6 0 183 12 0 3,430 0 01 121 2 0 20 5 0 79 0 0 1 17 0 5 7 61 27 8 0 6,428 5 Net expenses 1,826 2 0 4,572 9 0 5,758 9 OJ 1,334 11 995 4 0 2,551 4 0 1,243 12 0 896 18 0 1,401 11 830 8 0 1,014 1 2,476 3 0 4,062 2 0! 28,962 14 Net cost per prisoner ... 42 9 4 28 15 8 61 18 5 78 10 0 66 6 11 23 16 111 61 11 3 81 10 9 90 8 5 69 4 0 64 11 9 41 8 2 69 4 3| 45 9

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TABLE C. Prisoners in Custody, 1st January, 1883, and received during the Year.

TABLE D. Previously-convicted Prisoners received in 1883.

TABLE E. Previously-convicted Prisoners for Five Years, 1879-83.

Prisons. Criminals. Debtors. Lunatics. Total. Addington: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Auckland: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Dunedin: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Hokitika.: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Invereargill: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Lyttelton: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Napier: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Nelson: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year New Plymouth: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Timaru: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Wanganui: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Wellington (Mount Cook): In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Wellington (Terrace): In prison, 1st January .. Received during year Minor Prisons: In prison, 1st January .. Received during year M. 21 433 123 806 74 405 14 50 11 126 108 320 18 145 F. 21 219 18 208 39 263 5 34 21 2 8 M. 2 40 28 1 10 '4 2 7 2 1 1 F. M. 1 3 '2 29 i F. i jr. | 500 I 959 [ 490 | 68 I 175 1 432 | 165 F. 241 226 302 89 22 11 7 59 4 3 i I 67 7 18 64 4 10 6 '5 '3 1 93 17 14 151 2 26 '_ 1 11 a | 181 SO 10 143 1 25 io 16 6 | 179 32 51 37 I 88 50 372 7 125 i '2 | 425 132 7 764 1 105 15 40 io I 826 116 Total 4,401 1,151 135 112 24 4,648 1,175

Prisons. Once. Twice. Thrice or oftener. Addington Auckland Dunedin Hokitika Invereargill Lyttelton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Timaru Wanganui Wellington (Mount Cook).. „ (Terrace) Minor prisons M. F. 55 15 95 18 55 23 5 5 12 1 25 .. 16 1 5 1 4 1 36 6 19 5 8 .. 31 12 113 5 M. F. 34 14 46 5 33 20 2 5 6 .. 14 .. 23 1 1 .. 2 1 18 5 17 3 4 .. 21 9 58 6 M. F. 103 145 230 166 86 172 9 21 38 14 46 .. 37 2 1 1 1 1 23 2 27 6 10 .. 62 77 125 58 Total 479 93 279 69 798 665

Year, Once. Twice. Thrice or oftener. 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 M. 430 339 411 393 479 F. 69 67 58 67 93 M. 236 195 235 255 279 F. 50 40 55 51 69 M. F. 663 477 656 425 599 440 723 440 798 665

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TABLE F. Ages of Prisoners received during the Year 1883, and Cause of their Detention.

TABLE G. Education of Prisoners received during the Year 1883.

a o i i_ ■a a CO • . a £ _> a a P _ o n ! g q d o •i-i I r. I 0 o S >, s * CO s. d _ a a a 03 _C 0 I _3 ___i £! o r*~ S © "& _3 .IS .I. ® fflEH I u fi u o a 3 _ '» 8. d o n o 'A "3 H^ o B Under 10 years; fcelojiy 1; gai-dbmoanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunaoy.. 10 to 15 years; Felony Misdemeanour... Minor offences ... Debt or lunacy.. 15 to 20 years: Felony Misdferrieanouit 1. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. 20 to 25 years: Felony Misdemeanour Minor offences .. Debt or lunaoy.. 25 to 30 years: Felony Misdemeanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. 80 to 40 yeara: Felony Misdemeanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. 40 to 50 years: Felony Misdemeanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. 50 to 60 years: Felony Misdemeanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. 60 years and upwards : Felony Misdemeanour ,. Minor offences ,. Debt or lunacy,, 6 17 2 9 17 2 24 6 20 3 75 5 17 4 2 28 15 7 33 81' 26 1 43 41 64 8 7 5 17 3 9 25 ' 16 38 2 30 16 75 2 3 1 3 'i 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 4 2 2 6 3 8 7 I •• 10 3 15 14 9 31 15 14 37 1 1 2 10 1 3 3 1 5 7 7 9 2 1 1 1 4 4 3 1 '. 5 7 3 1 '3 2 3 3 1 '4 2 4 i 3 '_ 6 1 12 3 -2 23 3 '2 1 i 5 1 a 4 2 2 4 8 10 4 4 6 1 7 1 's l l 4 13 1 20 1 25 70 25 J IS tl 13 9 19 14 14 17 38 37 38 7 31 38 94 11 8 2 __3 u 56 14 35 126 46 89 1 180 108 258 25 195 146 445 46 53 1 24 4 179 13 30 70 142 9 32 23 170 2 8 3 22 2 10 13 29 11 30 19 40 1 19 2 19 2 9 4 3 3 20 4 11 3 36 4 10 18 13 11 9 2 32 3 137 1 44 31 122 17 268 198 932 77 21 2 162 13 25 80 145 11 33 17 96 2 6 3 20 1 9 8 32 11 26 10 18 3 4 29 2 3 9 2 10 4 5 2 33 5 11 17 25 4 6 3 15 4 47 39 49 93 17 201 204 719 68 7 2 55 6 10 34 83 1 5 6 25 2 4 '_ 4 1 8 2 10 3 9 3 ie> 1 3 2 1 7 6 1 11 5 6 13 8 7 1 6 21 11 9 48 6 75 72 304 29 3 7 31 46 4 8 8 4 3 1 '2 1 1 2 7 2 3 2 2 3 2 10 8 3 24 9 29 54 129 13 is 1 *2 i 2 7 2 1 Summary: Felony ., Misdemeanour .. Minor offences .. Debt or lunacy.. _______ 115 15 522 44 193 306 515 30 153 89 426 10 22 6 56 4 36 31 81 36 110 61 151 2 47 15 91 2 19 24 19 1 5 13 56 14 39 11 127 17 47 64 57 32 31 6 121 11 365 3 195 192 480 67 1,133 844 2,946 262 Total 696 1,044 078 88 184 324 155 63 88 I 194 200 87 500 5,185 934

Prisons. Unable to Bead. Eoad only. Eoad and Write. Superior Education. Total. Addington Auckland Dunedin Hokitika Invereargill Lyttelton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Timaru Wanganui Wellington (Mount Cook) „ (Terrace) Minor prisons M. 44 144 25 4 13 54 15 6 13 7 26 3 39 75 P. 28 58 49 2 5 2 4 6 25 16 M. 18 25 22 3 3 15 2 2 4 17 10 1 11 46 F. 29 15 9 2 1 i l 6 7 '_ 17 M. 407 667 365 44 141 248 129 52 58 140 130 32 312 678 F. 163 135 205 30 16 9 2 10 18 18 96 81 M. 7 3 3 5 7 F. M. 476 836 415 54 162 324 146 60 75 166 169 37 375 819 F. 220 208 263 34 22 9 3 13 28 31 125 115 Total. 696 1,044 678 88 184 324 155 63 88 194 200 37 500 934 2 3 1 13 20 i Total ... 468 195 179 92 3,403 783 64 1 4,114 1,071 5,185

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TABLE H. Number of Convicts (Prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude) in the different Prisons.

TABLE I. Offences committed by Officers during the Years 1882 and 1883.

TABLE J. Ceimes of Peisonees sentenced to Penal Seevitude or Haed Laboue for Twelve Months and over during 1883. Assault with intent to rob .. .. ..I Insulting language .. 1 Assault causing bodily harm .. .. .. 5 Larceny °. 16 -? rs °p .;• •• •■ •• •• ..7 Larceny as a bailee .. .. .. ..2 bestiality .. .. ~ ..4 Larceny from a dwelling.. .. .. .! 10 Breach of Pawnbrokers Act .. .. .. _ Larceny from the person.. 7 Bigamy ... .. ! Manslaughter 4 Burglary 5 Murder .. .. . ' q Carnally knowing, &c 2 Obtaining goods by false pretences '.'. ['. 7 Conspiring to defraud .. .. ~ ..1 Perjury.. i Embezzlement and fraud .. .. '.'.6 Provoking breach'of peace' !! Feloniously receiving .. .. .. ..1 R ape •.. ... 2 Forging and uttering 18 Eobbery with violence .. '.'. " "2 Horse- and cattle-stealing .. .. .. 5 Sheep-stealing . 2 Horse- and cattle-shooting .. .. .. 1 Shooting at 2 Housebreaking, and having implements for .. 11 Vagrancy .. 17 Indecent assault .. .. .. .. 3 Wounding '' q Indecent exposure .. ... .. ~ 3 _3tal ~ ~ 155, 2—H. 5.

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Prisons. 31st December, 1882. 31st December, 1883. . Increase. | Decrease. i Addington Auckland Dunedin Hokitika Invereargill Lyttelton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Timaru Wanganui Wellington (Mount Cook) „ (Terrace).. 3 36 28 4 1 68 7 1 2 5 40 24 1 45 2 4 i 12 2 4 3 1 23 7 ■1 1 i l 50 20 02 S2 Total 219 201 21 40 Net decrease 19

a o ■a a 3 •. a cs 0 a .a ® a a R 2 O w Is a £ S H A o ■w •© r. o a g s .3 t a a d -JO a 0 5? o +3 4-1 S 0 .3 o O OJ "S3 _8 "3 Eh 1 a (3 g 1882: Staff Late for duty Drunkenness Other offences 7 1 1 23 20 i 4 4 4 1 1 21. 3 6 4 5 4 8 7 15 2 1 U 4 '_■ 1883: Staff Late for duty Drunkenness Other offences 8 27 6 20 5 4 4 21 5 1 2 5 3 1 3 14 3 15 h 16 i '3 '.

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TABLE K. Visits of the Visiting Justices to the Thirteen Larger Prisons during the Year 1883.

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Prisons and Visiting Justices. § ! I 1-3 I Ph *& red r. in & a o rb if ! I ! a 1. J 1-5 J < \ rn M ED .3 O +r O o CD § o •A IH B ffl Q 3 HO H (A r. Addington: Richmond Beetham, R.M. H. J. Tancred Alexander Lean i 2 2 '2 1 i '2 i 1 : i 1 2 'i 3 t V 'i 2 i io 10 »\ Auckland: T. Macffarlane J. Newman H. Ok Seth-Smith, R.M. 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 1 '3 I 1 3 1 2 3 1 3 4 1 3 3 4 2 5 4 2 2 3 82 38 5 Dunedin: Captain Baldwin .. .. J. Brown.. .. J. Logan .. J. W. Simpson... I. N. Watt G. G. Russell E. H. Carew, R.M. 1 1 6 1 2 4 2 3 '2 3 3 '2 1 3 '5 5 8 6 i 2 2 4 3 1 2 2 1 7 'i 2 3 2 2 3 2 '2 6 a 2 2 §_ 1 29 27 14 4 1 i Hokitika: Joseph Giles, R.M. R. C. Reid James A. Bonar Richard J. Seddon, M.H.R. i i i 2 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 2 2 2 10 9 1 3 1 2 Invereargill: Henry McCulloch, R.M. J.T.Thomson Henry Feldwick, M.H.R. .. John Turnbull Duncan McArthur l l l 3 1 1 2 1 'a 1 i 2 2 1 i 2 i 2 1 2 13 5 10 2 i Lyttelton: Thomas H, Potts Hon. Edward Richardson, M.H.R. .. H. R. Webb John Ollivier, R.M. Harry Allwright, M.H.R. 9 5 6 1 10 i 9 3 8 4 9 3 8 12 2 1 1 14 5 1 2 12 1 97 24 3 6 10 1 3 *2 7 Napier: James Anderson H. S. Tiffen 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 17 6 Nelson: Oswald Curtis, R.M. W.Wells.. J. Sharp L. Broad, D.J., R.M l l i l "i 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 1 1 i New Plymouth: . R. Parris.. T. King .. C. E. Rawson, R.M. R. Trimble, M.H.R 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 1 ■ 2 1 • 2 2 i l 2 1 20 8 2 3 i i i Timaru: J. S. Beswick, R.M, Fulbert Archer E. G. Sterricker i 1 1 l i *2 1 i 2 3 6 2 i i 2 8 Wanganui: Robert Ward, R.M. W. F. Russell W. H. Watt, M.H.R. l 1 l l 2 3 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 20 5 3 i 1 i Wellington (Mount Cook): Colonel Reader James Maokay J. S. M. Thompson Colonel Leokie 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 6 2 1 1 3 3 i 16 10 10 3 Wellington (Terrace): Edward Shaw . i John Duthie Edward Pearce Joe Dransfield 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 i 1 1 i 2 2 1 2 2 2 7 10 9 4 'i i

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TABLE L. Visits of the Inspector to the Thirteen Larger Prisons during 1883.

TABLE M. Punishments for Prison Offences during the Year 1883. ADDINGTON PRISON.

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Prisons. 3 a -a ca rj it a .0 ED r. r> c? - a ft -S 3 < H 1-5 B 1-5 H» CQ 3 SC 3 iH CD a o. o 00 $ £1 o o i a © o I <D . p ,- Addington Auckland 4,22 22 12 17 11-17 24-28 23 ' 15 ' 11-15 20-21 Dunedin .. 6,7, 13-17 4,9,15 28-30 1,3,5,7, 8,10 ', Hokitika Invereargill Lyttelton i 3,5,21 30 i 15 9-11, 13 'a 17 27-30 22-24 15,17 Napier Nelson New Plymouth Timaru Wanganui Wellington (Mount Cook*) „ (Terrace) 24 9 10 20 25 28-30 16 30 8-io 6 20 24,30 6 24 18 12 12 20 22,26 7 11,16 36, .tl * Twice ■eekly whi :n ii Wellington.

w "in en QJr-. 81 '£* Ph Offences. By whom Eeported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. E. W. E.E. .. Singing, and using defiant and threatening language Disobedience, and insulting and threatening language Disobedience Asst.-Matron Langford Asst.-Matron Langford and the Matron The Matron Alexander Lean, V.J. 24 hours' solitary on bread and water. 10 days' solitary on bread and water. 48 hours' solitary on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary on broad and water, Ditto. E. W. a W. D. PI.-Warder McGowan C. D. .. T. M.M. E. W. Assault on a fellow-prisoner, and disobedience Violent assault on a fellowprisoner Idleness, and disrespectful conduct Disobedience, and disrespectful conduct Disobedience, insulting and threatening language, and disorderly conduct Asst.-Matron Langford Warder Flahavan Acting Asst. - Matron Russell Ditto H. J. Tancred, V.J. .. 14 days' solitary on bread and water. 50 marks forfeited. C. D. .. C. D. .. The Gaoler, Matron, and Acting Asst.Matron Russell 24 hours' solitary on bread and water. 7 days' solitary on bread and water. a •.

M. L. Disobedience of orders .. The Matron T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 2 days' solitary confinement. R.D. .. Destroying Government property Writing a letter illicitly, and sending it out of gaol Pretending illness Destroying Government property Ditto .. PL-Warder Bratby .. J. Newman, V.J., and T. Macffarlane, V.J. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. .1 V. XV. . . Chief Warder Rickerby 24 hours' solitary confinement. J. G. W. D. Warder H. McAnally J. Newman, V.J. 12 hours' solitary confinement in a light cell. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 1 week's Solitary confinement. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water in a light cell with bedding. 48 hours' additional solitary confinement. M. R... E.McG. E. J. M. Insolence to Medical Officer Assaulting a f ellow-prisoner The Matron Warder J. Beatty T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. J. Newman, V.J. E.McG. Falsely accusing Matron of appropriating Government property Having matches in possession Assaulting a fellow-prisoner The Matron R. C. .. PL-Warder Bratby .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. To forfeit 3 days' marks. J. T. .. Asst.-Warder Madigan 48 hours' in a dark cell, and 5 days in a light cell, with bread and water. To forfeit 1 week's marks. E.L. F. Having a knife in his possession PL-Warder Bratby ..

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cfi "rH M* a.2 0-r. •2 a rH Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. T. F. .. Destroying Government property PL-Warder Paterson J. Newman, V.J. 3 days' 2nd class rations, and 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary confinement. E. McL. P. F. .. R. C. .. Insolence to officer Making unnecessary noise Insolence to an officer Asst.-Matron McCabe Asst.-Warder Hughes Warder H. MoAnally P. C. .. Being in possession of a prohibited article, a knife Refusing to work T. Macffarlane, V. J., and J. Newman, V.J. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. Asst.-Warder Hughes G. M... Asst.-Warder Madigan // ■ • 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. M. K... Insolence to Asst.-Matron Asst.-Matron McCabe G. M... W. C... Disorderly conduct Making an unnecessary noise Making signs to other prisoners, indecent behaviour, and disorderlyconduct Idling and talking on works The Gaoler Asst.-Warder Madigan J. Newman, V.J. T. F. .. Asst.-Warder Coffey .. R.J. .. PL-Warder Paterson 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. E.W... E. W... T. F. Making an unnecessary noise Being in possession of a pipe Fighting // PL -Warder Bratby .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. A. 0. .. J. Newman, V.J. E. S. .. H. M. E.L. F. G. H... Assaulting a fellow-prisoner Cursing and swearing Asst.-Warder Walsh .. Warder Seabrooke .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. To forfeit 3 days' marks. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. 48 hours' dark cell. 4 days 2nd class rations. M. R... P. C. .. S. B. .. R. R... A. C. .. Obscene language Asst.-Warder Gideon Fighting Warder J. Lane Insulting language .. Asst.-Warder Gideon 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. M. O'B. Idleness and negligence at work The Matron H.G. Seth-Smith,R.M., T. Macffarlane, V.J., and J, Newman, V.J. J. Newman, V.J. 3. P. E. P. C. .. Assaulting a f ellow-prisoner PL-Warder Paterson Ditto. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. 24 hours' solitary confinement on broad and water. 7 days' solitary confinement on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. W.L... Lcaving the ranks without permission Disobedience of orders Misconduct and idling PL-Warder Bratby .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. S. B. .. 3. P. E. Warder Carte The Gaoler " * * G. E... W.E... Disobedience of orders PL-Warder Paterson M.teP. A ssaulting a fellow-prisoner Being in possession of prohibited articles Fighting Warder G. Martin .. Asst.-Warder Maloney H.G. Seth-Smith,R.M., andT. Macffarlane.V.J. J. Newman, V.J. W. H. S. M. O'B. E. D... M. O'B. R. W. Asst.-Matron McCabe S. D. .. Refractory conduct Disobedience of orders, and disrespect to an officer Disrespectful language to an officer Being in possession of prohibited articles Using threatening language Warder Seabrooke .. Warder McAnally T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. R. C... Asst.-Warder Madigan T. Macffarlane, V.J., and J. Newman, V.J. Ditto M. te P. Convict W. H. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. W. H. S. Being in possession of prohibited articles Disobedience of orders Fighting Attempting to communicate without the gaol by letter Being in possession of prohibited articles Ditto .. Damaging Government property, and general misconduct and insuborWarder McAnally T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. H. P... C. A. .. T. G. .. PL-Warder Bratby .. Asst.-Warder Forsythe Warder McAnally To forfeit 7 days' marks. M.L... Warder Carte 24 hours' solitary confinement on broad and water. To forfeit 2 days' marks. 24 hours' solitary confinement with a refractory belt. W. D. W. H. S. PL-Warder Bratby .. // • •

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at a.3 OH, Ul'rH •3 a rH Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. W.H. S. W. H. S. Disobedience of orders .. Damaging Government property Threatening language Warder Seabrooke .. PI.-Warder Bratby .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. To be kept in close confinement for 3 days. Ditto. S. A. P. C. .. J. MoA. J. G. .. Irreverent behaviour at prayers Disobedience of orders, having a pipe in possession Assaulting a fellow-prisoner Asst.-Warder Gideon Asst.-Warder Coffey .. Asst.-Warder Madigan Warder Martin 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Convicted, which entails forfeiture of remission equal to 7 days, prisoner being under a 4 months' sentence. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 3 days' solitary confinement on bread and water, and to forfeit 7 days' marks. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 7 days' close confinement, and to forfeit 14 days' marks, 24 hours' solitary confinement. M. B. .. TJsing profane language .. Asst.-Matron McCabe J. G. .. Refusing to work, third offence of like nature Obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty Assaulting a fellow-prisoner Asst.-Warder Gideon and the Gaoler Asst.-Warder Madigan H. G. Seth-Smith, R.M. W. H. S. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. P. C. .. Asst.-Warder Walsh.. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 3 days bread and water, and to lose 84 marks. J. G. .. Refusing to work Asst.-Warder Gideon H.G. Seth-Smith, R.M., T. Macffarlane, V.J., and J. Newman, V.J. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. S. B. .. Being in possession of prohibited articles, tobacco and matches, procured from a " plant" on the works Ditto .. PL-Warder Bratby .. To forfeit a week's marks. E. S. F. P.O. .. 24 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. Ditto. W. L. S. Having a knife in his possession Making unnecessary noise and disorderly conduct on Sunday Using insulting language to an officer Refusing to work Insulting language to a fellow-prisoner Purloining leather, and clandestinely making belts in shoemakers' shop Making a noise and disturbance in his cell, and insolent to officer Warder McDell W. C... PL-Warder Bratby .. J. Newman, V.J. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. W. C... Asst.-Warder Brewin Ditto. w. c... w. c... Chief Warder Rickerby Prisoner Robert Wilson F. Z. .. Warder Seabrooke .. T. Macffarlane, V.J. .. 24 hours' solitary confinement. M.H... Asst.-Warder Gideon 24 hours on bread and water.

G. L. .. Irreverent behaviour at Divine service R. S. .. Talking when at labour, and insolent to officer W. J. .. Receiving a knife from another prisoner, and secret- | ing the same G. H. H. : Receiving a knife from another prisoner, and secret- ' ing same in his bed R. G. .. | Smoking in his cell The Gaoler Warder McNamara .. The Chief Warder .. S. C. Phillips, Gaoler .. W. L. Simpson, V.J., and W. Baldwin, V.J. W. Baldwin, V.J. To bo looked up separately during Sunday. To forfeit 18 marks. To forfeit 36 marks. /> 2 days' close confinement, an to forfeit 42 marks. Asst.-Wardor Clarke.. J. Logan, V.J. Deprived of tobacco for one week. Ditto. W. P... Fighting with another prisoner J, M. .. | Ditto .. J. L. i, Insubordinate languago .. J. A. H. I Insolent and insubordinate language J. G. .. Purloining Government proi perty, and secreting plants I the property of Domain ! Board R. S. .. Disobedience of orders Warder Carter Asst.-Wardor Clarke.. Warder ScOtt W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. J. Logan, V.J. 48 hours broad and water. Deprived of tobacco for one week. To forfeit 480 marks. Asst.-Warder McCallion W. L. Simpson, V.J., and J. Logan, V.J. Warder Morrison Ditto 48 hours bread and water and to be deprived of tobacco for one week. To forfeit 168 marks. W. P... Insulting language to ! officer Asst.-Warder Watson

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HOKITIKA PRISON.

INVERCARGILL PRISON.

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rH CO 0>r-H a.3 OH •S'S irw Ph Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. T. W... Quarrelling with another prisoner Obscene and abusive language Assaulting another prisoner Wilful damage to Government property Purloining a ration of bread Asst.-Warder Clarke.. W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. 24 hours bread and water. J. W... Warder Coneys J. W. .. C. V. .. J. w... Warder Carter Asst.-Warder Watson 3. Logan, V.J. 48 hours bread and water. Deprived of tobacco for one month. Deprived of tobacco for one week. To forfeit 24 marks. W. P... Disobedience of orders .. Asst.-Warder O'Brien W. L. Simpson, V.J., and W. Baldwin, V.J. Ditto Deprived of tobacco for one week. To forfeit 42 marks. To forfeit 12 marks. J.L. .. Disobedience of orders, and insolence Insolence to officer Asst.-Warder Noonan J.L. .. G. L. .. Warder Coneys W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. W. L. Simpson, V.J., and W. Baldwin, V.J. J. Logan, V.J. J. C. .. Abusive and disgusting lanTo forfeit 42 marks. G. F. P. A. H. .. T. W. .. G. F. .. guage Profane and obscene language Refusing to go to work .. Having prohibited articles in his possession Smoking in his cell, and having prohibited articles in his possession Fighting with another prisoner Ditto .. Disobedience of orders // * * The Chief Warder .. Warder Beasley // • * W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. W. Baldwin, V.J. W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. 24 hours' solitary. To forfeit 12 marks. Bread and water for 3 days. To forfeit 12 marks. F.W.L. Asst.-Warder O'Brien 24 hours bread and water. r A. L. .. A.H. .. G. N. .. T.W.T. Warder Morrison J. Logan, V.J., and H. Gourley, J.P.* W. Baldwin, V.J. 18 hours bread and water. To forfeit 180 marks. G. F. .. Making false and frivolous complaints against officer Smoking on works, idleness, and having prohibited articles in possession Insulting language to officer Neglecting to obey repeated orders, and insolent language to officer Neglecting to obey repeated orders, insolent language, and having in possession prohibited articles Insolent language, having prohibited articles in possession, and committing a nuisance Warder Morrison and the Gaoler The Gaoler and PLWarder Carter To forfeit 84 marks. F.W.L. Asst.-Warder Murphy 24 hours bread and water. A.H. .. PL-Warder Pointon and Asst. - Warder Murphy PL-Warder Pointon .. Inspector of Prisons .. Deprived of tobacco for 7 days. T. W... W. L. Simpson, V.J. .. 24 hours bread and water, and deprived of tobacco for one week. M. McD. Asst.-Matron McLevie W. Baldwin, V.J. 3 days bread and water.

M. A. P. Insulting language Matron E.H.C.P. Refusing to work E. H. C. P. Disobedience of orders to Matron .. Warder Steele .. R. C. Reid, V.J. .. J. Giles, V.J. .. R. C. Reid', V.J. .. 12 hours' solitary confinement. .. 24 hours' close confinement.

'. G. .. Assaulting a fellow-prisoner PL-Warder J. McKillop J. T. Thomson, V.J. .. 24 hours bread and water.

w. w. D. B. .. H. E. Malingering Throwing nightsoil out at trap-door Idleness on the works Ohief Warder Ferguson E. Eichardson, V.J. i. T. H. Potts, V.J, 7 days' solitary and cautioned; 48 hours' solitary confinement; Separate treatment for a fortnight. 48 hours' solitary confinement; B. E. .. PL-Warders Worgan and Jones Pl.-Warder Pritchard E. Eiohardson, VjJ. .. To forfeit 14 days' marks. J. E. .. Making use of insolent and abusive language Using bad language Grossly insolent and abusive to officer G. G. .. 3. McG. Pl.-Warder Worgan ■.. 7 days' solitary confinement. To forfeit 14 days' marks. * Mr. Gourle; is not a Visiting Justice;

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a.s Ph m Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. H. L. .. Malingering, and positively ] refusing to work Wilfully destroying Go- i vernment property, viz.; clothing Damaging Government property, viz., a leather waist-belt Violent assaults.. Disturbing the quiet of the division Disturbing the quiet of the division after being previously cautioned Malingering, and refusing to go to labour after having undergone punishment for a similar offence. Disturbing the'quiet of the north-wing division by making unnecessary noise with his tins Disturbing the quiet of the north-wing division by making unnecessary noise with coll utensils Malingering, and refusing to go out to labour (1.) Disturbing quiet of north wing. (2.) Using abusive and threatening language to officer. (3.) Refusing to take his tea when tendered to him Disobeying the order given by officer, also making use of threatening and abusive language to the said officer (1.) Disorderly conduct in the. main yard. (2.) Assaulting prisoner Gilpin. (3.) Having prohibited articles in his possession . Disturbing the quiet of the wing by whistling, shouting, and making unnecessary noise, also grossly insolent to officers (1.) Creating a disturbance in the prison workshops, attempting to strike fel-low-prisoner, also using obscene and threatening language to prisoners. (2.) Making noise when in solitary division by whistling and shouting Malingering, and refusing to go to labour . (1.) Grossly insolent and abusive to his officers on the works. (2.) Soliciting passers by for tobacco Making unnecessary noise in north-wing division, also using abusive and insulting language (1.) Distinctly refusing to obey officer's orders. (2.) Violently assaulting officer in the due execution of his duty. (3.) Making use of bad language (1.) Making a daring attempt to assault an officer by throwing a slate at him. (2.) Wilfully damaging Government property. (3.) Making use of obscene and profane language to 1_'~ _£G PL-Warder Worgan .. ' T. H. Potts, V.J. ; • To forfeit 14 days' marks'; H.L... H. L, .. H. L. .. H. L. ., Chief Warder Ferguson t/ PL-Warder Pritchard Asst.-Warder Fuller .. ) ) ■ I 4 days' solitary confinement. 14 days' solitary confinement. H.L... Chief Warder W. W. 1 week's solitary confinement. R. C... Warder Reardon Locked up for two days. G. G. .. Asst.-Warder O'Brien 24 hours' solitary confinement. W. W. Chief Warder Ferguson 7 days on bread and water. H. R. Asst.-Warders Fuller and Gilchrist and Warder Kearney Separate division for 1 month during non-working hours. B. R. .. Asst.-Wardor Kirby .. 48 hours' solitary confinement. H. R. Chief Warder Ferguson 14 days' solitary confinement. W.H.H. Warder Reardon and Asst.-Warder Parker John Ollivier, V.J. .. 7 days' solitary confinement. J.W. .. Warder O'Connoll and Asst.-Warder Kirby T. H. Potts, V.J. 4 days' solitary confinement. H. W. Chief Warder and Asst.Warder Armstrong Warder Reardon and Asst. - Warder Manning E.Riohardson,V.J.,and T. H. Potts, V.J. T. H. Potts, V.J. 48 hours' solitary confinement. W.H.H. 24 hours' solitary confinement. T. L. .. Asst.-Warder Kirby .. 48 hours' solitary confinement. H. J. .. Asst.-Warder Gilchrist, Warder Bourke, and Asst.-Warder Little , John Ollivier, V.J. To be kept on bread and waterfor 7 days. • Chief Warder and PL- : Warder Pritchard ■ H. Allwright, V.J., M.H.R. To forfeit 7 days' marks, 3. 0. C.

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■■-■. • L. _co a cfl 0+3 co.TC - PH M Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. PtTriiBhir/ferrt; J.L .. H. R... J. M. .. R. H. .. Making use of obscene and profane language to officers Making use of profane language and language tending to incite a riot Making use of insubordinate language tending to incite to riot Disobeying officer's orders, and, when checked for HO doing, very insolent . and abusive, Insolent arid ihsuliordinats towards Surgedn tod Chief Warder Singing, whistling, and making unnecessary noise in his cell in the north wing of the prison during Christmas-day at intervals Ditto .. Chief Warder Jaquiery and PL-Warder Pritchard Ditto Asst.-Warder Gilchrist H. Allwright, V.J., M.H.R. John Ollivier, V.J., and H. Allwright, V.J., M.H.R. To forfeit 7 days' marks. H.-F.E. Chief Warder Jaquiery H. Allwright, V.J., M.H.R. R. P,. .. /> Reduced to probation-class for 6 months, and 2 months' separate treatment. J. McG. 3. 0. C. W.O.CI. Ditto. /; J. H. .. T. L. .. A. 0. D. F. L. M. H.R. .. Reduced to probation-class, and 3 days bread and water. Ditto. 3 days on bread and water. Distinctly disobeying the order given by officer, and answering the said officer in a very impertinent manner Warder Hillsdon To. forfeit 7 days' marks. a NAPIER P: ilSON. P. L. .. H.H... E.D... Insulting language .. | Warder T. Tyne Threatening and abusive j The Gaoler language Abusive and threatening : Asst. -W ar der J. Stelanguago i vens Abusive and insulting Ian- Warder 3. C. Nicholguago son H. S. Tiffen, V.J, .. 3 days' solitary confinement. James Anderson, V.J... „ H. S. Tiffen, V.J, T, D, .. Jaines Anderson, V.J... 48 hours' solitary confinement. NELSON PRISON, Nil. NEW PLYMOUTH PRISON. mi. TIMARU P ilSON. 3. K. .. j. A. .. j. A.... '. S. .. Fighting Profane language, and disobedience of orders Obscene language PL-Warder Reston .. Matron PL-Warder Reston .. J. Beswick, R.M. Fulbert Archer, V.J. .. J. Beswick, R.M. 48 hours' solitary. 2 days' solitary on bread and water. 48" hours' solitary on bread and water. 24 hours' solitary on bread and water. 48 hours on bread and water. 24 hours on bread and water. '. S. .. '. S."... Idleness, insolence, and disobedience Foul and filthy language.. Idleness and insolence to officer Obscene and foul language and disobedience Obscene language and disobedience E. G. Sterricker, V.J... a • • I. A. .. Matron 48 hours on bread and water. I. A. a • • 24 hours on bread and water.

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r. CO a.3 o+j W-H Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. K L. P. Leaving his place of work without leave Asst.-Warder De Blois W. H. Watt, V.J. To be kept on bread and water until expiration of sentence.* Ditto. K. L. P. J. W. .. Idleness at work Disobedience of lawful orders when at work, and delaying work of other prisoners Insubordinate language to officer in charge of gangKnocking off work, and refusing to return to it when ordered Threatening language to the Gaoler Threatening to escape from legal custody Using abusive and threatening language to Asst.Warder Meehan in the execution of his duty Assaulting prisoner F. W., by striking him on the face with his clenched fists Secreting two onions, the property of the Gaoler Disobedience of orders Secreting lead-pencil, pen, and penholder in her quarters Insubordinate conduct, and insolence to the Gaoler Leaving the rank of labourgang without permission Having a piece of cigar in his possession. Idling on works, and insolent when spoken to Idling on works, and insolent when spoken to Asst.-Warder MoGarry Robert "Ward, R.M.,\ V.J. J. W. .. - To work 3 days in irons. J. W. .. The Gaoler To work 4 days in irons. J. W. .. „ J. W... r One week on bread and water, and to do light work about the prison. J. W... Asst.-Warder Meehan W. H. Watt, V.J. J. W. .. F. W One month in irons, and to work as usual. M. K... Acting-Matron Robert Ward, V.J. ) R.M. L To be kept on bread and water for 6 days. Found guilty of stealing pencil ; 2 days bread and water. M. K,.. M. K... L.H. .. The Gaoler W. F. Russell, V.J. .. 24 hours on bread and water. J. McG. Asst.-Warder Meehan 24 hours' confinement on ordinary diet. 24 hours' in light cell. L. II. .. Warder Ferguson J. H. .. Robert Ward, V.J. .. 3 days on bread and water. J. A. .. Asst.-Warder Meehan 3 days on bread and water.

M.D... Wilfully destroying a Bible, Government property Ditto .. The Acting-Gaoler .. J. Dransfield, V.J., and E. Pearce, V.J. Ditto 3 days' solitary confinement. CD... M. D... J. McF. Idleness, and disobedience of lawful orders Ditto Assaulting prisoner H. W., by striking him in the face with his fist Idleness at work, and using profane language ' Assault on fellow-prisoner PI.-Warder Beardon.. 24 hours' solitary confinement. G. T. .. T. F. .. H. W. J. Duthie, V.J. '.'. 48 hours' solitary confinement. T. F. PL-Warder Eeardon.. E. Shaw, V.J. 48 hours bread and water. A. M. .. P. A. Warder Gallagher ... E. Pearce, V.J. 24 hours' solitary confinement in a dark cell. 7 days' solitary confinement. E. P. .. L. H. .. L. H... W. H. W.H. Using irritating language, and disorderly conduct General idleness and inr solence General idleness at work.. Wilful mismanagement of his work, and insolence to officer Insubordinate conduct, and damaging the door of his cell Using language calculated to incite the other prisoners to mutiny, and disobedience of orders Using profane language to Pl.-Warder J. B. Jacquiery Pl. 7 Warder Eeardon.. Warder Delahey PL-Warder Eeardon.. J. Duthie, V.J. 5 days' solitary confinement. 7 days' solitary confinement. 48 hours' solitary confinement. 24 hours' solitary confinement, and to forfeit 42 marks. J. McK E. Pearce, V.J. 3 days' solitary confinement. J. McK. Pl.-Warder Jacquiery 24 hours' solitary confinement. * Within a few day: of expiration.

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r 09 . ~rH CQ CDr-, a.3 C»"rH "St-H Oh Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. •'Punishment. H.H.L. H.H.L. Assaulting prisoner A. T. Disobedience of orders, and riotous and insubordinate conduct Assaulting prisoner P. S. Assaulting prisoner W. H. Using irritating language to prisoner H. S. Using threatening language to Principal-Warder Dennis Reardon Insubordinate conduct, and disobeying the lawful orders of Warder James Delahey Wilful damage to prison clothing and bedding Defacing the brands on his shirt and trousers by sewing patches over them PL-Warder Reardon.. E. Pearce, VJ. 14 days in irons. To forfeit 42 marks. M.G.D. M. G. D. J.L. .. ti 7 days in irons. 3 days bread and water. J.L. .. J.L. .. Warder Delahey 3. Duthie, V.J. H. S. .. Chief Warder Ferguson 24 hours' solitary confinement. H. S. .. Gaoler

J.N. .. Making use of threatening language to officer, and disobedience of orders Refusing to do the work ordered Using improper language, and refractory conduct Idling at work, obstructing other prisoners at labour, improper language, and frowning at his officer Disrespectful and insubordinate language, cursing and shouting, and smashing cell-windows Using highly insubordinate and filthy language Asst.-Warder Brearley Colonel Reader, V.J. .. 7 days' solitary confinement. on bread and water, and to forfeit 42 marks. 48 hours' solitary confinement on bread and water. 48 hours bread and water. R. S. .. W. B... PL-Warder Millington A. B. .. Asst. - Warder Burnes and PL-Warder Millington 7 days bread and water. T. W... Pl.-Wardor Millington and Warder Duggan C.W.N. PL-Warder Millington and Asst. - Warder Blatohford Asst.-Warder Daley .. 7 days bread and water, and to forfeit 42 marks. C.W.N. Using improper language to the officer on duty Insubordinate language, and disobedience of orders Using filthy language to officer Disrespectful language to officer, delaying the;duties of the prison, and having a knife-blade without authority Refusing work ; using threatening, insubordinate, and filthy language; damaging cell furniture; shouting, cursing, and whistling Insubordinate language, and disobedience of orders Using insubordinate and defiant language, and having a piece of a look-ing-glass without authority Disobedience of orders Refusing to have his hair cut Disturbing the quiet of the prison Insolence and falling out of the ranks without leave, and refusing to go to labour Refusing work, disobedience of orders, and having prohibited articles J. S. M. Thompson, V.J. Colonel Reader, V.J. .. 3 days bread and water. A. M. .. Asst.-Warder Murphy 24 hours bread and water. M.McL. Asst.-Warder Nilsen.. J. S. M. Thompson, V.J. At R.M. Court, Wellington R. S. PL-Warder Millington 14 days in a light cell. C. T. .. PI.-Warder Millington Ditto Warder Duggan Colonel Reader, V.J. .. To be removed to the 3rd class,. and forfeit 84 marks. Fined 42 marks. F. C. .. C.W.N. J. Mackay, Esq., V.J. E. 0. .. J. H. .. Asst.-Warder Brace .. Acting - PL - Warder Duggan Asst.-Warder McNulty Fined 20 marks. 3 days bread and water, and fined 84 marks. 24 hours bread and water. J.J. .. J. S. M. Thompson, J.V. W.B... PL-Warder Millington J. S. M. Thompson, V.J. 12 hours' solitary confinement and fined 7 days' marks. W. J. s. Acting - PI. - Warder Duggan J. Maokay, V.J. 2 days bread and water, and fined 21 marks.

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'%4 a.3 043 ■ga Offences. By whom Reported. By whom Sentenced. Punishment. ;. R... Disobedience of orders, using improper language, refusing to go to labour, and insubordinate language Disobedience of orders, refusing to have his hair cut, resisting the officers in the execution of their duty, and using improper language Positively refusing to obey orders Resisting the officers when being placed in punish-ment-cell Refusing to go to work .. Refusing to go to labour .. Asst.-Warder Pointon, Acting - PL - Warder Duggan, PL-Warder Millington J. S.M.Thompson,V.J. Fined 3 days' marks. . N. .. PL-Warder Millington, Acting - PL - Warder Duggan, AssistantWarder McNulty, Asst.-Warder Blatchford PL-Warder Millington 24 hours' solitary on bread and water, and fined 7 days' marks. Colonel Reader, V.J. .. 24 hours bread and water, and fined 14 days' marks. Ditto. W. J. S. W. 3. S. Acting - PL - Warder Duggan W. W. W W. P. W. Millington 24 hours bread and water. 3 days bread and water.

Summer. Duties, &c. Winter. 5.30 a.m. .. 6 „ .. 6.20 „ .. 6.50 „ .. 6.55 ,, 11.5 „ .. 11.50 „ .. 11.55 ,, .. 12 noon 12.5 p.m, .. First boll rings, prisoners rise, wash, dress, make up hammocks or beds, fold blankets, and sweep cells Night Look-up Report examined by the Gaoler or Chief Warder, keys checked and taken over from night orderly officer, officers (division on full duty) parade, keys issued, muster of prisoners taken, slops collected, and breakfasts served in cells ; officers parade, muster given in, and keys collected Officers leave for breakfast, breakfast patrol taking charge Officers (division on short duty) parade for inspection, keys issued, prisoners unlocked, names taken to see Gaoler, Surgeon, &c, preparatory to marching to labour Officers (on full duty) return from breakfast, general- muster parade, prisoners searched and marched to labour immediately afterwards (those in shops exercise half an hour) Dinner patrol officers leave for dinner. Bell rings for recall from labour. Prisoners return from labour, muster taken, prisoners searched, marched to cells, and locked up Prisoners' dinners served, dinner patrol officers return. Officers parade, keys collected, divisional muster taken from each locking-up officer ; officers leave for dinner, dinner patrol taking charge Officers parade, keys issued, muster taken ; prisoners unlocked, paraded, searched, and marched to labour. Prisoners in shops cease labour, and exercise for half an hour Bell rings for recall from labour Prisoners return from labour, muster taken, prisoners searched, bathing by roster, &e. Officers (division on short duty) leave for the night unless specially detailed for duty All prisoners paraded, searched, and locked-up in their cells (except cooks); suppers served, Lock-up Report signed by officers, officers paraded, keys collected .. All officers off duty except orderly officer, evening patrols, and reserve guard, who will be detailed in turn from duty roster, taking charge Hand-bell rings, prisoners make down beds or hammocks, and turn in. Lights out, strict silence. All single officers in quarters, unless on leave. 6.30 a.m. 7 7.20 „ 7.50 „ 7.55 ,, 12.55 „ .. 4.30 „ .. 4.50 „ .. 4.55 „ .. 5.5 „ .. 5.30 „ .. 3.30 p.m. 3.50 „ 3.55 „ 4.5 „ 4.30 „ 6 „ .. 5 7.45 „ .. 8 „ .. 10 „ .. 12.5 p.m. .. 12.55 „ .. 1 „ .. 1.5 „ .. 1.30 „ .. Saturdays throughout the Year. Duties up to 12 noon same as week-days. Officers on full duty leave for dinner. Officers on full duty return from dinner. Officers (both divisions) parade, keys issued, prisoners mustered and unlocked. Officers on short duty leave for dinner, and do not afterwards return, unless specially detailed for duty. Prisoners bathe, hair and beard cut close ; divisions, cells, &e., cleaned; clean clothing issued, and general eleaning-up; blankets shaken in open air, weather permitting; clothing mended, &c. Prisoners parade, muster taken ; prisoners absent from parade visited by a Principal Warder, and certified correet; exercise, &c. All prisoners (except cooks) paraded, searched, mustered, and locked-up in their cells for the night; suppers served ; Look-up Report signed by officers ; officers parade, orderly officer, evening patrols, and reserve guard taking charge ; remaining duties same as on week-days. 4 „ .. 4.45 „ ..

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Summer. Duties, &c. Winter. 7 a.m. .. 7.30 „ .'. '8 „ .. «,55 „ .. 9 till 11.55 11.15 a.m. .. L2 noon 12.15 p.m. .. Sundays throughout the Year. Bell rings, prisoners rise, wash, dress, make up hammocks or beds, and fold blankets; Night Lock-up Report examined by Gaoler or Chief Warder, keys checked and taken over from night orderly officer. Officers (division on duty) parade, keys issued, muster of prisoners taken, slops collected, and breakfasts served in cells. Officers parade, keys collected and muster given in ; officers leave for breakfast, breakfast patrol taking charge. Officers parade, keys issued, muster taken, slops collected, and prisoners unlocked for exercise. Divine service and exercise, names taken to see Gaoler. Dinner patrol officers leave for dinner. Prisoners paraded, mustered, and marched to cells ; dinners served. Officers parade, keys collected and muster given in; officers leave for dinner, dinner patrol taking charge. Officers parade, keys issued, and prisoners unlocked. Names taken for writing, and Divine service held, exercise, &o. Prisoners parade, searched, and locked up in their cells; suppers served, Lock-up Report signed by officers'; officers parade, keys collected, orderly officer, evening patrols, and reserve guard taking charge. Officers not detailed for duty leave for the night, evening duties same as week-days. 1.55 „ .. 2-4 „ .. 4.45 „ .. 5 „ .. The night watch officer who relieves the evening patrol is always posted at 8 p.m. and relieved at 6 a.m. following morning by an officer or officers detailed for that purpose. Duties on holidays same as Sundays. Winter hours unquoted same as summer.