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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1711, 18 May 1886, Page 2

A correspondent m London, who was present during the Bi-yce-Rusden trail, writes as follows to the Christchuroh Press :— " Sir John Crorst, who seens almost as mush a fanatic as Te Whiti, prated for three or four hours about the wicked colonists and the poor, oppressed, and plundered natives ; and now Rusden is underexamination, m which position he seems to think it his sacred duty to give no information. Sir Henry James is the cross.examiuer, and poor Rustlenis deing crucified, as he deserves. One interesting piece of information has come out — viz., that the assertion, now admitted to be false, that Bryce ' cut down women and children m 186&,' was supplied m two letters ftora Sir Arthur Gordon to Husden, writen while Bryce was his Minister. Fancy a Governor supplying materialsfor false and malicious libel on his own Minister — of course, behind his back !" An English exchange thus speaks of the high character and strict prihoi pies of the Shetland Island heroine Elizabeth Monat : — Elizabeth Mouat has declined the offer telegraphed to her by the manager of the Royal Aquarium to come to London to be exhibited and rereive visitors at the Aquriuui. The salary offered was' £10 per week, and travelling expensespaid, The heroine of the Columbine is not, as was at first stated; a widow,, but an unmarried woman; living- with her half-brother, Thomas Hay, .a fisherman crofter on a small farm at Scatness m the Shetland Islands. The object for which Elizabeth Mouat set forth on her fateful journey was to consult' • a physician at Lerwick. Last; spring she had a stroke of paralysis, and has been ever since more or less , of an invalid. In Edinburgh a fund has been opened for the rescued traveller, whose adventures have been almost unparalleled m seafaring histoiy* On the second day over £50 had been subscribed. The rejection by Elizal>eth Monat of the proposal to make a show of herself recalls the case of Grace Darling, to whom, after the wreck of the Fortorshire, where she distinguished herself by her heroism, enormous offers were m rain made by managers of London theatres to exhibit herself on the stage'