A MONSTROUS STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5651, 27 December 1879, Page 7

A MONSTROUS STORY.

A stouy is published by the (7n7 awl MM tary Gazette «-f Lahore so wicked and monstrous that no on" should oied.t a word of it without more cadence. Two correspondents at JSrinagar givo it an authority winch, backed by the prestige of an excelh'n journal, comman-s attention, though d »es not enforce bcJi-L The Inspector Gi-neral of Police quarrelled with a Persian newswriter of Cashmir, and used his position to throw that unfortunate into From thence Pandit H&rgopAl wrote to Dr. Downes, of the English Kesidency, informing him that the inspector had eaus d three hundred starving penp! - to be drowned in L.ke Woollah. Ic -is to be remembered tf at a f iinine seld un c-qualld in severy is ravaging and i-ausing dioa m-igfc offensive to th«; otlicial clas* l">r. 1> wnes instantly !ai i the charge before '^e

M ihar.ua!:. who diret.d the Govern »r to | re:M»rt " Tin » ofuci 1 acenn only t) luvc I replied that »■« knr<v nothing about ic. Mr. Henvey, of ih.; Famine Gwnmi?9'on, visited j the Pandit i:i sra«»l and received from him such documentary evidence enti-«d the insp-cc.jr of p-ilicc tv> be arretted. The Pandit was released. A day or two afterwards a man presented himsdf bf.ire Mr. Henvey, wiio alleged that ho had been i,-ive I from the drowning. He said chat in March last he was arrested for beggiug, with his three children. They were ail thrust into a with soma hundreds more, and tiken to Woollah Lake. There the vessel was scuttled, and all saving himself and a boy, who clung, unperceived, to the boat of the executioners. One Ibraham But was accused as chief agent in the massacre. Two days afterwards this witness died of poison at the Residency, though the extremest precautions had been taken to protect him. Curiously enough, the Pandit is suspected of the murder, and he has again been arrested, with all his family, ac the instance of'the British officers. A number of f crsoas have siuce come forward with evidence more or les- tending to the suspicion that an awful otime has been committed on Like Woollah. But until the Resident reports his opinion, it would be very unjust to credit such an abomiuablo accusation.