A NOTED CONVICT.

Gabkett, the well-known bushranger and housebreaker, died the other dsy from ic*te bronchitis at the Wellington gaol, and it Jg observed as a strange coincidence that the foreman of the jury at the inquest was one of the victims stuck up by him at Mauneatn* Garrett's proper name was Henry RonagT' the son of a small farmer at Harby «' Leicestershire, England. He commenced his career of crime by breaking into a house 1843, for which he was sentenced to Denl"! servitude. At that time the most desperats cla sof criminals, instead of being i ant ?! Tasmania, were conveyed direct to Norfolk Island. On the break up of the penal estak lishment there, he and other convicts w sent over to Tasmania, where they com D u"j their sentence. During the excitement » the Victorian goldfields he migrated thith and formed a gang which committed a nu " ber of robberies, the most important be" 01 " the sticking up of a bank at Ballarat in the year 1854. A fine haul wag m*d ' and for a considerable time all the memle of the gang escaped justice. Garrett with a fair companion, went to London with h portion of the spoil. The home police were apprised of his absconding, and he to # ultimately arrested and brought back to Victoria, where he was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. Shortly after 'h' release the Otago goldfields were di!i covered, and in 1862. along with Bareest Levy, Kelly, and other noted criminal? he came over to Dunedsn, with the vie® of going up conn'cry to praotice their pro. festion among th.'. diggers. It is said that Garrett professed to have another object in view—to search nut one of his accomplice, in the Ballarat Bank robbery, who had turned Queen's evidence. Early in 1862 Garrett, Burns, alias Anderson, and a number of them committed a series of robberies at Maungatua, taking possession of a par. ticular point, one day from sunrise to sunset, and sticking up travellers who passed Among these travellers was the late lamented Father Moreau, who w*s then returning from a mission on the Tuapeka goldfields. Garrett and one of his companions insisted on bailing him up, while the other desperadoes, some of whom knew the reverend gentleman, objected, and he was allowed to g° by unmolested. It being mentioned to him afterwards, Father Moreau remarked that the bushrangers would not have got much if they had bailed him up, as all he had in his possession at the time wm a threepenny bit, After this Garrett escaped to Sydney, where he was appreneuded, and was returned to Dunedin. On the loth May, 1862, he was tried in the old Supreme Courthouse, and received a sentence of eight years for the Maungatua affair, Liefore the completion of this sentence he had to be removed to the hospital. Knowing the man's desperate character, the then Oommissioner of Police, the late Mr. Biannigan, had him extradited to Melbourne as a ticket-of-leave man out of bis district. There, however, the authorities were quite as anxious to be rid of him, and he w&i sent back. Mr. Brunton then kindly took Garrett in hand, and he regularly attended his ministrations at Farley's Hall. One evening, instead of going upstairs to his devotions, Garrett deployed to the right, and managed to get into Mr. Allan's seed shop. Fortunately for himself, Mr. Allan and Mr, Reid visited the shop that evening, and found Garrett in the act of robbing the till. The police being close at hand, he (the burglar) was given into safe keeping once more. Before this exploit many people were anxious that Garrett, whom they regarded as a reformed man, should have a chance of redeeming his character, and among others who provided him employment at his tradethat of a cooper—was the late Mr. Thomas Birch. Prior to breaking into Mr. Allan's shop he was arraigned on two indictment* for housebreaking, and being found with housebreaking tools in his possession. For these offences he received a sentence of twelve months. He pleaded guilty to break, ing into Allan'B shop, also to another charge, and was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. In his lodgings was found » large quantity of stolen property of various kinds. In January, 1881, he was transferred to Lyttelton, where he was released, bat though about 74 years of age, he could not resist the inclination to burgling, and was soon in trouble again. Lately he was transferred to Wellington. A day or two before the opening of the Ex* hibition in Christchnrch he met an old Dunedin fellow prisoner, and wished to enlist him for the purpose of committing robberies. No murders have been laid to his charge, though it was a favourite saying of his that "dead cocks cannot crow." During the whole of his career in the Norfolk Island, Tasmanian, Victorian, and New Zealand gaols he was generally disliked by hi* fellow convicts, who looked upon him as a mean, low, cowardly fellow, as he is described by the notorious Burgess. While at liberty in Christchnrch light manual labour was found him, and it will be remembered that he contributed a series of scurrilous articles on " Prison Experiences" to a now defunct Christohuroh society paper.