Our Paris Letter.

Manawatu Herald, 18 July 1895, Page 3

Our Paris Letter.

Paris, 30th May, 1895,

Corsica is an old world medieval place, but if all is true, that was said of it during a recent debate in the Chamber of Deputies it must be a very old fashioned pace indeed. It is a place of clans and faction fights, and if what the Cassabianca clan asserts be true, the Prefect of the Corsican Department appears to have adopted with enthusiasm the manners of the country. On the other hand, the Minister of the Interior drew a curious picture of the manners of the clans in general and the Caesabianca clans in particular. On several occasions, it was asserted the successful candidates at Muni* cipal elections polled double the number of votes contained on the register. A Major was accused of parading the country at the head of a band of armed voters, who appeared suddenly at various elections and determined their result with rifle shots. Another Major, it is said; went a step further, and canvassed a certain legislative district, accompanied by a notorious brigand, and a criminal under sentence oi death, both armed to the teeth On polling day it was said, that the brigand and the criminal posted themselves on an eminence corns mandmg the polling booth, with their rifles pointed at the hesitating electors.