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214 road all the way to Portobello, and for a considerable distance beyond that township; the Port Chalmers and Deborah Bay coast road; the road across the Bay from Forth street to Logan's Point, and on through some heavy cuttings to Ravensbourne; the opening up of the southern end of Maitland street—another hill literally cast into the sea, and resulting in a large portion of land being reclaimed from the bay; removal of the Octagon Hill, ten or twelve feet high; formation of large portions of Cumberland and Castle streets, into both of which the water of the bay in places penetrated; levelling the Girls' High School ground; and filling up and forming (with construction of large stone sewer underneath) Upper Smith street, which connects Stuart street with the Girls' High School—a large work because of the great depth of the gully; formation and drainage of the Hospital grounds, and planting of the hedge and erection of the fence all round the block of five acres; formation of the Boys' High School Rectory ground, and the road leading from the Queen's Drive to the rectory; extensive works at Caversham and the Industrial School; formation of the Maori road, which connects the higher portion of Dunedin with Mornington; formation of the Jubilee Park, &c., &c. The heavy and dangerous cutting in Pitt street was also begun by the prisoners, and for twenty years, the Botanical Gardens have been kept in order by a party of men being daily told off for the purpose. The more recent important works are the formation of the breakwater and the mole at North Otago Head, and the erection of the fortresses at Lawyer's Head and Tairoa Head—the latter, a large work, being still in progress. In a number of these works the Maori prisoners took an active part, and the Maori road, leading to Mornington, was entirely formed by them, as its name indicates. Such extensive and important operations required very efficient overseers. Of those who took a leading part and spent longer or shorter periods in the service, the following may be mentioned:—Mr. Joseph Young, now farmer, Portobello; Mr. James Intosh, now in the Customs Department; Mr. John Outram, retired; Messrs Strong and Duncan, both deceased; Mr. MacNamara, retired; Messrs Ferguson, Flannery, and Prictor, all now in the Prisons Department in the North Island; and Chief-warders Poynton and Armstrong, now in charge of the large works at