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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 428, 24 June 1881, Page 13

VICTORIA HOTEL, Colombo-Street, Chbistchuech. P. BURKE .... Proprietor. Good Accommodation for Boarders and Travellers. Persons from the country visiting Christchurch will find it to their interest to enquire for the above Hotel. One of Alcock's Prize Medal Billiard Tables. Good Stabling, with loose-box accommodation. xhibi It i o n NOW OPEN. Admission — One Shilling. NO MONEY TAKEN AT DOOR. Tickets can be obtained at the following establishments :—: — Musicsellers — Messrs. Begg and Co., Kelsey and Co., West and Co. Booksellers—Messrs. Macedo, Livingston, Wise and Co., Wilkie and Co., Sligo. Tobacconists — Messrs. Mendershausen, Nathan, Abraham, 'J H E IRISH QUESTION. LECTURE By ROBERT STOUT, Esq., Is Published in This Week's SATURDAY ADVERTISER. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. INQUIRER. — The fact of St. Patrick's having been a native of France seems to be fully established on the most reliable authority. The theory of his Scottish origin is not seriously entertained in any quarter worthy of consideration. Poetry. — Owing to the flood of patriotic verses that has set in, and which it is quite impossible for us to examine half of, we are obliged to close our columns against all original poetry, we shall try, however, to make up to our readers for this deprivation by quoting from our contemporaries such verses from poets of a reputation already established as we may from time to time find there. PBibONB. — We shall give in our next issue a fuller extract from Lord Beaconsfield's speech at Aylesbury relative to the appointment of retired military and naval officers to the Governorship of gaols, together with a similar view of the matter by the greatest of American statesmen and jurists upon penal legislation, Edward Livingstone of Louisiana. It is quite true that in the Australian colonies the governors of gaols have been promoted from the ranks, more especicially with regard to Victoria, whose prison system is acknowledged to be vastly superior to those of Great Britain and Ireland. We agree with our correspondent that it is a great slight upon the governors of our prisons, several of whom are officers of long standing and who have rendered important services to the colony, to rank them b«neath half-pay captains, and imply that these are immensely their superiors.