RIO AS A RESIDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10465, 21 November 1896, Page 5

RIO AS A RESIDENCE.

Whatevor drawbacks life at Bio may pnseosß, monotony Is apparently not one of them. The resident who la in want of excitement' may, to the tibsenoe of n revolution, take It in the form o; murder, highway robbery, kidnapping by the press gang, armed burglary, or couiplalnjng to the police, which last seems to bo rraltfal of incident. Wehaveaaidhe may got) his excitement by any of these methods— by being the subjaot thereof— bat the cbauoeo seem to be that whether he liken it or nob he will be compelled to do so. Mntder appears to be a favorite recreation with the Rio de Janeirans, and " Bticklng up " cases are of such frequent ooonrience as to be hardly worth noticing. Only when the Charge d' Affaires o J Italy is robbed of some £200 does the Bio News give halt a dozen llnea to the occurrence, and then apparently only because the vloblrn was iaanlted by the police officer to wham be complained. The native papers make no sort ol a to-do nbnnt Embezzlements. "A shortage of 28 000 dollars hae beau discovered In tha Government Telegraph Office." Ouly that, and nothing more. The deposition of a thief to the effect) that) the thieves and pickpockata who operate on tha Central iail« way are assisted by an emplojd who receives part of their galne, calls forth the mild remark that the employ 6 should be punished. An Englishman Is awakened one night by a noise at his door, and gets up to fiud out the cause. His wife shortly heara a shot, and her husband staggers bick iuto the room and falls dead, shot through the heart. Alongside the brief report of this tragedy we find a csbo which shows at what peril ote disturbs the police of Rio. Suveral individuals wen!) to an inspector one dny to give evidence io regard to n complaint that) had been made. "Annoyed at being disturbed, ho sent them all to gaol, where he kept them for 48 hours, and thcu Informed them that they rmißt p.ty 34d01s each in order to be released. Tney succeeded in inducing him to reduce the amount to 9dols. after paying which they were Bet at liberty," The fact that ihe second mate ' ot a Gorman barque hi« been missing for J some days iB quite nufficienb gronrjd for I suggestion than perhaps ttie press gang t can tell something about) him, Probably 3 the inhabitants of Rio, the Europeans at 1 any rate, would prefor n little less excitement, even at the risk of life becoming monotonous.