the prisoners in the Victoria gaol are employed upon "grass & coir mat" making, bed & mat making, "tailoring, shoemaking,
"& carpentering", as appears from the Blue Book, & I
beg to express Lord Kimberley's regret that this information was not supplied to you in the above named letter.
3. Chinese shoemaking & carpentering however are so different from European methods in those branches of prison labour that any distinction cannot be contemplated.
4. With reference to the suggestion contained in the latter part of your letter under reply, I am to state, that turn-keys locally engaged have not proved successful, and Lord Kimberley therefore proposes to send out a man from this country, if a suitable man can be obtained.
5. I am to point out that in a list of Prison Officers volunteering for service in the S.S. which was furnished in your letter of the 7th of Oct, one man, named Henry Wizler,