N
432
Duratch N. 13 of 28th January 1878,
Cha
list
the prisoners, showing their
Primes, sentences, and dates of convictions,
released by
Me
M
the occasion
F
the
490
was us
Lord Carnarvon very consiterable
being thirty four out of fifty cis-
recommended for release by the
"Heppo" Calamity.
a
2.
With sexpect to furnishing
reasons
a full report explaining my for exercising the clemency of the. Crown in this case, I do not know that I can add very much to the information already given on this subject in my despatch St. 166 and the enclosures in Despatch
The number of t
my
Je 171 of 1877. brisoners I released for attending to the infferers by the "Gels" explosion
Superintendent
of
the Gaol and the
Medical Officer. The circumstances
were
however
entirely exceptional.
3.
Owing to cances for which I am not responsible, this Colony, does not popes Hospital
m a
a
proper Civil Gaol with any thing
like adequate accommodation for the large number
of prisoners in confinement. When the explosion occursed in the Steamer "Gebo" then lying at a wharf in the Harbour, the neater of persons.