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Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1893, Page 3

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April, 1892) from the pen of special Commissioner Sergius M. Petroff, the official who accompanied Miss Marsden on the trip from Yakutsk to Vilriish and back, commanded the expedition, translated every word she heard, took all the measurements (inside' and out) of the leper huts, made the drawings, &c, and saw more lepers than she did. That Miss Marsden is acquainted with M. Petroff s refutation of nearly every one of the statements is inferable from the fact that she has omitted one or two of the most imaginative which have appeared in Russian and versions of her late prer * liminary to the issue of her book." M. Petroff a plain, unvarnished story shows Miss Marsden's account of her leper adventures in Siberia to be quite as unfounded in fact as her aocount of ■ New Zealand lepers, and of her adventures in this colony. : M. Petroff asks in astonishment, "Does she • really believe what she hatf written of this journey ?" and he winds up exclaiming in despair, after erium* *" crating a great number of ..fictibqal assertions, " But you could never reckon up all her mis-statements." The New York Evening Post refers to statements regarding; Miss Mapden's New Zealand experiences which have appeared in our columns from time to time, as well as in.' those of Other New Zealand journals, which, are named, and dates given.