MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF YOUNG WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1889, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF YOUNG WOMEN.

w ■•••■■■— HOW THEY ARE DECOYED AWAY. The London correspondent of tho Sydney Morning Ecnild writes : — In a letter sometime back I mentioned the case of a j'oung English lady who had disappeared at Victoria Station. It will !<e remembered that she was eventually found in a little

town in Germao^v She had been drugged at Victoria Station by -a man who, in a rainstorm^ 1M suddenly put an umbr^ila over her head and a handkerohief with a powerful amesthetw over hei mouth. Her experiences had ber<n of the most terrible character, and at la 4 she was only allowed to escape because the ruffians who carried her O& feared tiny might have hei 4 death upon their hands. The poor girl is now in a re.igious house and will probably, instead of making the happy marriage that was intended for her, become tor ever an inmate of a foreign nunnory. Last week * young lady from Paris, coming •T«r to Loadori to fulfil the duties of. a governess, for -which she was eu §'a»eti by 'good people, was seen into che train in Paris, and every xnea ns taken to protect her en route for Victoria Station. There is evidence that she arrived properly at the station, but six days have elapsed and no trace ot her is to be found Tiiese tragic romances of London are far inozo numerous than the public understand, and it is believed that in nearly every case the assailants of the wretched victims are foreigners. One of 'he great dangers of London surely lies in the admission, without i*egistration or surveillance, of the riff-raff and sweepings of all nations. The police are understood to keep an <?yje upon political refugees of a dangerous character, and of course sake account, so far as they are able, of suspicious persons ; but it is possible for any number of ruffians to come ovor from the Continent and take up their qnnrters for any nefarious purpose whatever in this great metropolis ;and in .the matter of 'ho, abduction of young girls and assaults of that nature it is within the experience of :he police that the criminals belong to other countries. In die case of the young French governess, it would, of course,,be. very easy for a foreigner, man or women, speaking her language, to get into conversation with her ; but in the caso of «he young English girl, the abduc- . tion was committed under the most daring circumstances, and •by a foreigner who spoke French with a .Russian accent In her case it is understood that her friends do not desire to have any stir made about it, both for the sake of the girl and her friends. She was engaged to be married to a young gentleman o P position, and, although the painfu T incident occurred some months agothe mother still lies prostrate from grief. LECTUKE ON NEW ZEALAND. Mr Geoi'ge Dixon, a member of the English House of Commons, who visited the colony recently, gave a lecture on his trip to New Zealand, as president of the Mosoley and Balsa! 1 Health Institute, a report of which appears in the Birmingham Gazette. Amongst other things he makes some singular statements, as folio ns:— "The N- rth Island was specially subject to earthquakes, and in consequ' : nco most of the houses wore oi wood, which were not s i rapidly destroyed as buildings of brick or stone. The risk of fire was, however, thus increased, and when a fire broke out v. spread with fearful velocity, so tha*; the young people were trained to the uso of the rope fire, engines provided in all houses. There was, Mr Dixon said, a remarkably great wind power al 1 over the island and especially near the' mountains, and this fact he considered had a great deal to do with the extraordinary healthiness of tho dimate. So great was the force of the wind at times that even coaches and trams were stopped and overturned, and in the severe gusts horsemen had to dismount and lie down till the storm bad passed. His main purpose in going to New Zealand, Mr Dixon said, was to see a sheep run of which he was the unfortunate possessor. (Laughter.) He would be very happy to sell thi s run: well fenced in, with a nice house upon it, at tno moderate price of £2 an acre, with 10,000 sheep thrown in.. (Laughter). One of the peculiarities of the colonists was that they were extremely fond of horses, learning to ride while yet infants, and an unhappy result of this fondness was that they were very much addicted to horse racing. Nearly every littlo village had now its racecourse", and the time and money of the inhabitants was squandered in this evil indulgence* Most of even the poorer inhabitants had their own horses, and he heard of cases in which women servants had horses whioh they rode regularly." "KEATING'S POWDER" »?M»rny Bugs, Flmb, Moths. Beatles, and ,-H o'her in»ect«, whilst q«Uc hnrmlein t<> tfomci-fc uornaK la exforminatinfr boi-tlc«, the ncocess of this powder is extraordinary It is jieri'edtly clean in appHoa-ion. S«>e the artiole yon purohiKO is " KfMiingV n: iraitatipnfl are uoxioim a>irl iieffVcti al. 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