DANGERS OF CIVILISATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 62, 3 July 1876, Page 2

DANGERS OF CIVILISATION.

It is no new thing for foreigners of wejj and distinction to send their sons to Englj for a year or two's study. But to judge I the results of such a system of education exhibited recentlyin Tunis, it is not likj that many of the inhabitants will repeat jj experiment. Mr., or Monsieur, Ben Tiii —for the story comes to us through Pari was a native of El Amri, in the south of The one of the richest land-owners of the disttic and celebrated for numberless pilgrimu

and other acts of piety which had gained! him almost the reputation of a saint. I had sent his third son, Amar, to England I study, and the youth only a short titneq returned to his fatherland andtheance* mansion, imbued, as it was hoped, witbS enlightened civilisation of the.West. 11 result seems to prove that the young m studies had been directed chiefly in a penn of the police reports, so that instead of 1 lington or Marlborough, his favourite ki were of the Fish and Wainwright type. , any rate, one of his first acts on being resfei to his family circle was to cut the throaii his father and his two brothers. The deedi quietly accomplished one evening last -m and the following morning the bodies, i! having been hacked to pieces by the assas were hastily buried in the sandy soil neaij public watering-places. Here, after! days, they were naturally enough discora The horse of an official who was visiting! place, while accidentally pawing the grot brought to light an arm of one of the vicfi and on a search being made, the resfrof remains were quickly unearthed. Thei derer was, of course, seized, but on beiw terrogated, gave another proof of his I lish education in refusing /to crimis himself by making any This ni discouraging product of our modem eci tional efforts is seventeen years old. motive was simple—it was nothing morel a desire to possess the whole, instead of ( a part, of the patrimonial estate. This is second atrocious murder reported durirj last few days from Tunis, where the rap killing seems to come into fashion, as it i in this country, by fits and starts, prodm almost simultaneously a wholesale crop crimes.—'' Globe."