The Tuapeka Times - Wednesday, August 21, 1895

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The London "Times" states that Oscar Wilde was recently visited in Pentonville prison by a friend of his, who found him to be in the best of health, with a clear, healthy appearance and an exceedingly good appetite. He said that he had fully resigned himself to accept the condition in which circumstances had placed him. The form of hard labor that he had done up to the present was oakum-picking; but in accordance with the regulation of Prisons Act, which only imposes first-class hard labor for the first month or six weeks, he will very shortly be put to the making of mats. He is closely attended by the Anglican chaplain of the prison, who has supplied him with a number of religious volumes, among them being the works of St. Augustine.