Russian Jews in America.

Sfe§*f &tit>i^BiiM^"ii New York corresponitt^^Anui Chronicle, writes : papers teem with the ; v&ipiu fcrages on iEe'Jews in Russia. Pitiful, I -in&Qd, is the story, and the sorrowful > : Vf.^<9i&i4 > turned this way. Several hunof the fugitives arrived here this £'^K»k seeking 'shelter and a home. They <■ araaji utieanny looking crowd ; the poor Viook little better than those thab have :i»on». They have a suspicious, hunted ■-iloiid of look, and about the worst recoraxnehdation that one can have who seeks to inquire into their situation is, that he * T ia au officer of the Government. Government to them meant robbery, not protection ; ife meant grinding oppression and cruelty, so no wonder that one could get : little out of them. Bub how much will these miserable wayfarers have bettered V their conditions on reaching this favored v' Republic? As soon as they get here they colonise. The Russians ask for the Russian quarter, the Hungarians for the Hungarian quarter, the Poles for the Polish quarter, and, strange as it may seem, though all of a common Hebrew stock, there are among them race feuds as bitter and unrelenting as exist between Jews and Russians. As I have frequently said in these letters, the Jews of New York are as rich, ./.powerful, enterprising and public-spirited as any religious class in the country. They * are found every where. They are amongst the foremost in literature, music, politics and all sorts of public enterprise. Several .©£ the most important newspapers are controlled by them, and in financial matters i* goes without saying that they control tlie greatest financial institutions in the world. Their hospitals, orphan asylums, and other public charities are unsurpassed by any in the land, and among their social organisations they have the finest club .in the city' not excepting the Union or Manhattan. "VKth such a showing ib was only reasonable to suppose that in the race for life the Jew would have an equal chance •with his Christian neighbour. But has he? Brooklyn is filling up rapidly ; its population is getting up towards nine hundred thousand ; several of the new arrivals hare formed colonies there, and numbers of free and enlightened young Americans look upon them as intruders, bo wherever they meet them on the street they stone them and plaster them with mud in a manner that must forcibly have reminded them of their own dear Russia. ' Of late the street gamins havo added to .their amusement by plucking out the beards of these unfortunate exiles, and rolling them in the mud. • !The: coming Tasmanian Exhibition is now beginning to attract attention. It is estimated that nearly a quarter of a million " • ... person! will attend during its currency. The opening'ia to take place towards the close of next month. The H.B. Herald states :— We draw the attention of the Minister of Justice to the fact that a public enquiry is urgently needed in connection with the case of an unfortunate man named Ross, who now lies dying in the hospital at Waipukurau. Ross took too much liquor a few weeks ■ ago, and fell off a vehicle he was driving. He was subsequently arrested and locked up for drunkenness, and- was kept in a cell from Saturday night to Monday morning, when it was considered necessary to send : him to the hospital, It was then found that his spine was broken, and his dying depositions were taken. In those depositions he makes the most serious charges against "the arresting constable, inter alia that he was ' several times stood upon his feet and . allowed to drop " all of a heap," and that he was even more deliberately injured. Inspector Pardy was sent from New Plymouth to hold a private enquiry, and has apparently done so, as he has returned or ~ is on a way to that " newly discovered centre of Hawkes Bay." But something more than that is needed. A most searching public inquiry should be held at as early a date as possible for the charges made by Ross in his depositions allege such cruelty that the mind sickens at the thought of it. Unless justice is a farce in New Zealand the case of Ross must be inquired into at once. A new view of libel was taken at the Leeds Assizes recently, when John Creaghe (49) physician, of Sheffield, was indicted - for publishing a libel concerning Mr Arnold Muir Wilson, a solicitor, of the same town, in a paper called the Sheffield Anarchist. On June 18 there was a summons returnable against the prisoner, and Mr Wilson appeared as advocate for the prosecution, being subsequently grossly libelled in the paper referred to. The jury having found the prisoner guilty, Mr Jus- j tice Grantham said that as no injury had .'. been done to Mr Wilson — for the only injury anything in such a paper could do, 1 would be the people who read it— no personal punishment would be inflicted upon Creaghe. He would be bound over in his - own recognisance of L 25 not to libel Mr Wilson again, and to come up for judgment when called upon. Hazel, a theatrioal agent, was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months. '■ <The Probation Officer reported that the man had a bad career both in Isfew Zealand and other colonies. The *fudge refused to admit him to probation. At the declaration of the Waikato poll Mr W. A. Murray expressed a fear that those who had voted for him would be marked men in the community, and be made to suffer personally. He also made a number of other very absurd remarks, some of which were challenged and oontradicted. Mr Murray evidently not only lost the election, but his temper also. The elections to be held this autum in the United States will have no political significance. Politicians shuffling for strategic position for the great contest in 1892, and local issues only, appear. In lowa the issue is prohibition : Will the State sustain, enforce, modify, or abandon Prohibition 1 The result will be close, and at the time of writing is uncertain. The line is not nearly as sharply drawn between the moral and immoral forces as was the case in the struggle for the constitutional amendment. The manner in which members of the "Wesport Harbor Board obtain payment for expenses in travelling, say to Wellington on a deputation, is simple (says the Westport News) when it is known. There is no provision for such payment, but , expenses ate allowed for cost of travelling of members attending meetings of the ... Board. Notice of such meeting is posted to the member at Wellington, who gets -paid for coming back te Westport to attend the meeting. It is a pity that expenses of deputations are not allowed, especially in the summer season. „„ Chicago is getting ready for the World's Fair. The City Corporation 'have given ' IiI,OOO,<KJO -in money and the site. \ LIjOOO.OOO more has been raised by pn- . yate subscription. The grounds are being cleared and mapped put, and the founda- ' ;tibns of the great buildings are being laid. will be ready in ample time. ii^EVery State in the Union will do its part, ?§«^d: then Congress will provide whatever ; I inpreip required to make this the grand■J -lusst-fair;1 usst-f air; the world has ever witnessed. The for beauty, .accessibirFilirrlpo^enWnce, and cleanliness. £¥^ihe i Central Criminal Court, Sydney, instant,; Maurice Dalton was f|feup[>|ttil(^;pf^nurderinjg: his wife Cathe-:-bjr;bartering in her head with §»J|^|^?irdnVyvHis v flpnor concluded IflpikuSiteijag up, and. half-an- hour afterr ;f^^"i|fctfe]Miqr^etur.'nis4'a verdict of guilty. death, ||^tt^|t^|p 4 Ut^tte;M|l Palfpn displayed the |l^i^9t^id ludiftTerence to all thafe was go§:^^^w?^^o; $W an< * h en sentence of ffl^^gp^f?d:||th%ad ,b®<s» R ft ?sed upon him |Plii|^J|^ipifprmedthp Judge that he was

had been said. His Honor repeated the sentence in a louder voice, but even then the man showed no symptoms of emotion. About 1854 he was tried at Bathursfc for killing a policeman at Mudgee by striking him on the head with a stick. He was then found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced feo five years' penal servitude.

A Bill to abolish plural voting passed Its second reading in the Legislative. Assembly of Victoria last week. Originally the measure contained a provision extending the franchise to women, but after this proposal had been fully debated the Premier agreed to expunge it from the Bill. During the discussion asfcron^feeling was expressed by a section of the House in favor of the dual vote, and this may be given effect to in the Legislative Council. Mr Robert Harper made a strong speech against one-man-one-vote principle, urging that the whole tendency was to make the people that imposed the taxes supreme, and to give the people who had to pay them practically no representation whatever. That was, he remarked, thetendency shown clearly inNew Zealand. " I was there three months ago " said the hon. member, "and a more regretful spectacle than New Zealand presents at the present time it is impossible to conceive. That colony is losing its population although it is having good seasons and prosperity is ooming back to it The people are leaving the colony at the rate of 15,000 and 20,000 a year, and the reason that men have got into power who are seeking to impose taxation which is practically irrespective of the interests of the people. Capital is flying from the country, and the best citizens, the young men, are leaving by scoreß and hundreds. We have no more telling lesson of what such a course of action as is now proposed may end in than the example to which I refor."