WHITE SLAVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2131, 6 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHITE SLAVES.

The Tunes' Rome ronopondont wiyn : — This week's police rt-puitsi include the capture on .-ucctssnt; (tajf, at the Rouiiiit Central Kuilwiiy St.iluin, uf two of the inanv dealers in while .slaves, as tho tmtKu i.s called In r<-, who still continue to cany on their vilt, tiade, notwithstanding the efforts made to put a etop to it. Of tliu uirti now arrcbtedjone was a certain Luiin Rossi, uf Villa Latiua, in tho Province of Caserta, agent of one Antonio Tdttagiiu, hviug in London, who had with him a girl, aged 20, whom he had had bought at thp price of IOOf and a boy *gpd 15, for whom he had paid COf, both destined to be employed in vagabond protV.s>ioiis in luiglaud. The other man, named Luijri Z<*ppa. of Casagliere, had two boyiof the ic-p'jcti»e ages of eight and fivf. He was taking them to France, to accitain Filomena Mo-elli, to whom it w\i- ii-ceitciiuod he luul already bold 11 gill for the puce ut Gf a month. The Rifotni leui.irkh on the lamentable frequency ul similar facto, \ery many < f wlnuii e«uipe iluter.ti'ju. '1 ho u\en now i-aptuied will bo j>imi-ht.d,ii* the luw provide->, iind the law };o>ide-, and tho ohihlrui u ill be -tnt li 10k to the parents.

AV\M< c liasj ■ n utaken the profitaltle taiU ot <)su ■ taming tliu weight of the eomn.o.l iiou-.- fly. Me has found tiiat it takes 46,100 ot them to balance a pound weight. The follow .ng is reported to have been uttered by a candidate at an English election: — • 'I will not, gentlemen, imitate the cowaully hlackguatriisin of my unRcriipulotit opponent, whobe language would defile the lips of a Billingsgate h'shfae, but I will endeavour to show that his life, fi oui Ins cradle up, has been one long methodical, heartless, cruel lie. Sophocles has told us that even au ass possesses a modicum of wisdom, but Sophocles, my gentle voters of Shu tileborough, had not. when he penned those immoital lines, taken into consideration that a man named Pugsby was ever gohu; to appear in the arena of life. Ha«l he done so, he would never have written them. " Th°re died the other day in Paris nn American named Huntingdon, who was for many years the correspondent of the iVewYotk Tribune He remained in that ctty during the whole of the siege for no other pin pose thnu that he might devote his private fottunc to the lelief of poverty nnd suffering. "When I found my way into the city at the end of the siege," writes Mr Sinalley, "I cariied with me a loaf of white bicad, then the gieatestof luxuries. Hunting-lou looked at it with a hungry flare, and I put it down on the table. 'Do yon mean I may have that?' 'Yes, I brought it for you ' 'But may I do what I like with it? 'Certainly!' He picked up the bie.ul aud vanished, was away half an hour and came back. 'Well,' I said, 'have you eaten it all? He looked hard into the fire, and said it was all gone. Ne\t day Mr Kuialley learned that Huntingtou had taken the coveted loaf to a lady lying ill in childbirth and wasting away, as the doctor said, for such fooJ as half-btaned Palis had no more of. A Fiih.NCii nobleman rteently played a game of ecartC with a foicign Count, The latter won aud the Frenchman pulled out 10,000 francs and haudod them to the winner, who secured them in hit pocket-book, and went home. Early the next morning a gentleman of aristocratic bearing, and decorated with the order of the Legion d'Honneur was shown into the apartment of the foreign count, who was still asleep. " Monsieur," he said in tones ttembling with excitement, „ you hold in your hands the honour of a whole family." "Indeed!" "Kindly tell me was it you who played with M. de X ?'' " Yes." " You won ten thousand francs?' " coirect." "And he paid yon ?" " Yes, in bank notes. I have them here." " Well, sir, the notes are false!' "I 3 it possible !" "It is alas, too true ! Last night we were apprised of the nefarious practices of our relative, aud this morning I started off at daybreak to call here and ask you in Heaven's name to exchange the notes you have for ten others which I have brought with me. 1 ' The noble foreigner, out of consideration for his visitoi's evuleut grief, exchanged the notes. But ou returning to the club the same evening he was not a little surprised to meet his opponent of the previous night ; anil, what was still more, surptisiug, ttic latter proposed to have his iL\eugi*. The foreigner curtly refused, and the other insisted, which led to an explanation. The Count drew from, his pocket the fresh notes he had received iv the morning. The French nobleman, quite stupefied, examined them carefully, and found that they were false. The gentleman with the decoration turned on t to be a notorious sw indkr, who had thus coutiiud to vet 10,000 I francs ju genuiuu bank uatts.