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is armed with greater disciplinary powers. He asks that he be
authorized to order corporal punishment on his own
re
responsibility,
as is done in Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and other Colonies. He
proposes that his sentences should, if thought necessary,
be subject to approval by the Governor, and should not be carried out for 12
hours. His object, as he explained
to the Executive Council yesterday, was to impress on prisoners that he was supreme master in the
Gaol, a feeling that is not entertained now when a Justice of Peace, generally
a
different one each time, is brought
in to assist him, whenever there is
a case
of gross insubordination. A reference to the Superintendent's
Annual Report will show that,
General Gordon taking over
there was hardly any discipline at
the Gaol
all. With much tact and
judgment he has gradually changed all this, and he is naturally hated
by the
criminal classes both in and out
of Gaol, it being well known that
confinement