The Age, referring to the sentenc* passed oil Mr Stead, Bays : — " The I*^T 18 unfortunate to him. bat the moral ( wction of the public and those who are familiar with the terrible character of the monster evil that he attacked )iltii<>Bt single-handed, find who admire zeal and courage even when it 11 lacking in worldly knowledge, will b« on his sile. He will go to prison wit 1 the consciousness of haviu«» forced a powerful aud lethargic Legislature to rectify a great wrong that was sappi I.!^1 .!^ the vitals of society, and of Laviu^ roused society itself to a Sense of tSie duty that it owes to its own reputation as a Christian and cultured body of men and women.*' According to a telegram from Con stantinople, appearing in the Ikttlf \eiet, a youug Englishman ratneJ Charnaml has been carried off by brigands near Smyrna. They demand £9000. He writes:— "My captors are lx»th Mnssulina^s and Christians. Try and collect the ransom, U-canseai sure as my name is Fred, they will cat off my head if the money is not found. I f the brigands are pursnert by the authorities they will certainly kill me." Another notorious had-r with ins gang is at present on the hills of the Gulf of fsuiidt. The new &.R. Xfararoa, l»ni!t for th« Union Steamship Company of Ncvr Zealand, l>egan her career with a trip to Norway, carrying a large partj of more than 50 gnest* over much of the route vhich had been pre« viously traversed by the Princ* of Wales in the Osborne, and by Mr Gladstone in Sir T. Brawey's Sun lx>ara. The latest addition to th« fine fleet of the Union Company, which will run between Melbourne aud Dniir> din, is not only as sumptnously ap« pointed as her sister Ijoata, but it er»ti more artistically decorated Umu tlia by.st of Iwr f redt^ccasoia. It Aotii

TILE IXASGAHUA TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1885.
