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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 198, 1 July 1864, Page 4

AVIIV JI1'!. KIUIIAKDjSOX WAS KILLED. One cannot but regret, when such valuable lives as those of' Captains Josling and Wilmot, with 11 British seamen, have been sacrificed, also 180,001) harmless people burnt uut of house and home in Kanosima, that the cause should have originated in the arrogance and disregard for national customs oi a party of our count rymen, who, we may say, deliberately rushed on their own destruction. The Japanese aullioriiies inlimated that it was desirabic that foreigners shouhl not be riding on the Tokaido, or great public road, on the l.jlh September las. ho ause it was probable that Diainios with llieir hosts of feudal ret.liners, the siehi of foreigners, would be travelling on it. This was notified lo the community. On the evening of the 11th -Mr. Kiehard.-oii, a young man proceeding home bm China with a fortune, was visiting Japan oil the way. The same evening he had intended returning to Shanghai by her Majesty's despatch boat Kcnard. At the request of .Mrs. Corrodaiie, a Hongkong merchant's wife, also a visitor to Japan, he prolonged his stay, and a-co.npat ied her, and .Messrs. .Marshall and Clarke, on their injudicious ride to the Tokaido that evening. They met for u considerable I extent of the road Daimios' retainers, and comuiou

sense ouL'hf to have dietat-d to them fbfa-rkuew i-ifTt'c-tlv that tn«v must Bh|)rtijgjS|||g^ •oiUH. t with a ]J.iiniL > himself, Wbi(!.i:i, unnu'lv. SlHM.M'i'nn -nluira. the filler ot the Jrniuw •>: trismnu. and which. unfortunate!v occurred at ft point i f I In' ToUUlo where it »_ S iuUK ! ,.ly ilerc the mourned pariy came.,. coihsion with the Daimio hiui-cif'. ami m l'l-"-' 0 ° road, which thev could have done ino greatest il„-v remained u.wn i< Jr.. win- lo one ? u.e only. Xl,rv we're linn attacked, when they iranieu.ately got oil' the I'oad. but bv this time the haul blows h.U been received bv uny biows »w aimed at -Mrs. IJorrodaile 'he Japanese deny ; they neve.- strike at women will, cutin.il instruments, and facts tend to support their statement; inasmuch as Airs. IJovrodiiil's hut. us stare:!. was not cut in two, hut nicked up entire, having been lost by l.er ... her j'i.rl.r 'J he etorv about her riding into the sea, preferriu<f drowning* to murder, is hindrance olthe fact ; l.cr PO..V took l.er through a swamp on Ins way to re "a in the road.—London and Chum Ic^yajh.