DEATH OF GARRETT, THE BUSHRANGER.

(Wellington Evening Post.)

The ctrrtai□ foil at midnight on Wednesday oo on* of " the most atrugt eventful bbtotiw" which have to be recorded of soy Australasian malefactors who " left their country for their country's good." Henry Garrett, who waa also known to the prison authorities by the name of Boose (which then is reason to believe waa the correct appellation}, expired in the Terrace Gaol last night at 13 o'clock, t»n senile decay, at tha age of 72 years. Garrett was transported to Norfolk Island in I<M2, oa a sentence of 10 years' penal servitude, for an offence committed at Birmingham. He waa liberated shortly after the gold discoveries in Victoria, and was next beard of at B alia rut, where, in 1855, without a confederate, he, in broad daylight, eotcred the Bank of Victoria, in Start-street, within SO yards of tbo Comminioner'a camp, and, presenting a molm at Mr Loins, the manager, " ballad op " that gentleman, and robbed the bank of L6OQO. Before entering the beak be astutely pat a notice outride, fameting that business would be suspended for aa hoar. Telegraphs and telegraph cables were unknown*in the colonies in these days, and although Garrett waa suspwctsd, be managed to get dear away from Victoria, and reached London, where be waa Men by aa A astral iandetectire, who, to make sore of bis man, adopted the rase of giving a " cooey." The old familiar sonnd caused Garrett to took round, and this expedient led to his being captured. Taken back to Melbourne he received a sentence of teo years, part of which he served in the prison quarries of Williamstown, in which be was working wban Mr Price, the then Inspector-General of Penal Establishments, waa murdered. The Otago rash had jest broken ont when Garrett waa a second tfme relieved from penal ser- i vitode, and thither he soon hied, his first exploit being the sticking np of seventeen teamsters and awagstnen behind Maun-' gatua, near the Post Office Creek. Having tied op the meo ho goodnatnredly gave them each a pannilcin of tea, and baring filled their pipes and cautioned them not to itir for two boon he rode off. He was arreated for thta last-named offence in Aoatralia, and was brought back to Sew Zealand. In transit Garrett was lodged fa the Wellington lock-up, where he waa searched by order of Inspector Atchison, and in the lining of his bat, notwithstanding his having beea searched in Anstrrlia, was found a manuscript history of his career np to that time, which was subsequently published in the Wellington Independent and the Otago Daily Times. Garrett, who waa at that timo a moat powerful man, was tried in Dunedin, and oo being taken into the Conrthotue he deliberately and with one effort snapped Ma manacles as easily apparently as if they had beea thread. For the Post Office Creek afiair, Garrett, in 1862, received a lenience of eight years' penal servitude. It would be tedious to follow the chequered career of this man, suffice it to say that no sooner was he released than be again got into "trooble" and it is asserted that be spent nearly fifty Christmas Days in prison. Although a " queer customer" while ia imprisonment down South, he proved to be a most tractablo man while la the charge of Mr Garvcy at Monnt Cook Prison, from whence, on account of failing health, he waa removed in July last. In his last moments Garrett, whose boast it was that he never shed human blood, and never injured or robbed a woman, was attended by Archdeacon Stock, from wboso administration it is to be hoped he derived consolation in his tattar days.