CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 68

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Lord barnarvon in 1899 against the Conditional Pardon and Deportation

system..

Avere

mainly

based

on

the

clear evidence I had obtained that,

however well intended or admirable

in

theory,

it

was a

bad system,

inconsistent with prison discipline,

crime it

and that instead of checking fostered and enlarged a criminal class

on

our-

Kowloong frontier

within the

Colony,-

and

ever

but I was not

insensible either to the sound general

C

1875, and in which the Secretary of

State had said:.

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effect upon neighbouring

Colonies, the Empire generally,

of letting loose a

foreign countries, of letting

highly

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criminal or dangerous felon.__

I to reside in

#

#

any

part of the world.

except only that principally concerned

to take charge of him, was a

which might clearly and not

step

unreasonably give rise to complaints from without the Colony

principles

his

lordship

had laid down.

To release a criminal

upon

X

the

X

condition that he should inflict himself

either upon

other colonies and foreign

on this subject in addressing the Governor of New South Wales in October 1874 in certain despatches, copies of which had been transmitted to

my predecessor in

"

countries

DY

upon this country,

was

altogether in opposition to the theory

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