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(14.) Yeaf. One. Two. Three or more. 1873 ... ... ... ... ... 43 19 26 1874 ... ... ... ... ... 56 16 44 1875 ... ... ... ... ... 41 23 102 1876 26 12 37 1877 ... ... ... ... ... 24 12 10 Totals ... ... ... 180 82 219 (15.) 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Once ... ... 33 11 62 17 78 24 62 28 47 12 Twice ... ... 12 8 88 26 38 12 25 6 16 9 Three times or more 71 136 153 114 173 150 126 147 75 166 116 155 303 157 289 186 213 181 138 187 v ,_ ; v ( / / v _.^ i \ r i 271 460 475 394 325 The total number of previous convictions in five years is 1,925, equal to 38-25 per cent, of prisoners received. (16.) On reception into the prison, a minute description is taken of the personal appearance of each prisoner, and of marks of tattooing, &c. (if any), on his body. (17.) None. (18.) Monotony of diet and want of tobacco. (19.) No. They occasionally have a few shillings, but whatever it may be it remains in possession of the Gaoler, and is handed to prisoners on discharge. 4. Number, Classification, and Separation of Prisoners. (1.) 5,180—namely, 4,034 males, 1,146 females. (2.) In 1873 ... ... ... ... 142, namely, 120 males, 22 females. 1874 167, „ 143 „ 24 1875 177, „ 145 ., 32 1876 162, „ 131 „ 31 1877 174, „ 140 „ 34 (3.) 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. (a.) Debtors ... .... 30 24 5 12 15 (b.) Lunatics ... ... ... ... ... 6 (c.) Waiting for trial and on remand ... 139 127 202 155 127 (d.) Summary convictions ... ... 555 5i7 (540 606 471 (e.) Tear—1873,15 ; 1874, 27 ; 1875, 29 ; 1876, 20 ; 1877, 23. 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. (/) Three months ... ... ... 2 ... 10 7 3 Six months ... ... • ... 14 4 3 4 3 Nine months ... ... ... 2 2 11 11 4 Twelvemonths ... ... ... 6 6 4 7 5 Eighteen months ... ... ... 4 4 5 16 Twenty-four months ... ... 1 4 3 5 7 (g.) Three years ... ... ... 6 3 4 8 4 Tour years ... .. ... 5 2 3 ... 3 Five years ... ... ... 1 4 ... 1 3 Six years ... ... ... 3 Seven years ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Ten years ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Fourteen years ... ... ... 2 ... 1 Life 3 Death ... ... ... 2 .1 112 (h.) William Fisher, sentenced 10th July, 1873 ; sentence commuted to 10 years' penal servitude, 18th July, 1873 ; discharged by free pardon, 31st July, 1876. Himiona te Rua, sentenced 5th April, 1876; sentence commuted to penal servitude for life, 19th April, 1876. The reasons the above sentences were commuted are not stated in the pardons. 1873. 1874. 1875. 1S76. 1877. (j.) Juvenile offenders (under 15) ... 7 14 6 7 18 (k.) Women and girls ... ... 214 189 238 255 242 Total for each year ... 1,011 964 1,165 1,101 939 (4.) A. By construction. (1.) AVomen of all classes are together. (2.) Penal servitude prisoners have a mess-room and exercise yard to themselves, and sleep in separate cells. (3.) Hard-labour prisoners have a mess-room and exercise yard to themselves, and these previously convicted sleep in separate cells. (4.) Prisoners waiting trial or on remand (males) have a mess-room and exercise yard to themselves, but sleep in associated cells. (5.) Debtors and boya have cne mess-room and exercise yard between them, but are otherwise kept apart. B. Prisoners are so employed as to keep them classified as denoted in A (above) as much as possible, but penal-servitude and hard-labour convicts of necessity do much of the quarry work together. Prisoners employed in stone-breaking are each engaged apart from 9—1. 4