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Temuka Leader, Issue 1082, 13 March 1883, Page 1

Paeis by Night.—A contemporary has the following description of Paris:—" The strange and horrible scenes enacted nightly in some of the ordinarily frequented quarters of Paris would make one imagine that the most civilised people of the universe had suddenly become moro savage and lawless than the Ku Klux Khan of America. It is not an uncommon thing for a foot passenger returning from the theatre, to be stayed in his promenade by a human form flung from an upper window and falling lifeless at his feet. Nor is it rare to be accosted by a group of brigands, who pinion their victim behind while the accomplice rifles his pockets. Even in the aristocratic streets, it is dangerous to remain out la f e at night, and the police arc becoming less and less able to compete with the dangerous organisation of thieves, who usurp the pavement."