"LAND AND LIBERTY."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3487, 14 June 1879, Page 2

"LAND AND LIBERTY."

(Tho Nihilist Journal.)

Souio interesting • details of .the chief Nihilist, organ, which is clandestinely distributed throughout Russia, aro furnished by a letter from Sfc. Petersburg. Its title is Semla i Stoaloda (Country and Liberty), and .it is printed in a quarto form. ' It olaims to hold jurisdiction over everybody. Ifc warns, threatens,- nnd" pardons ' right and left, and """" gives prompt., ar.d nccurafco information .respecting tlio cavrjin.-j oufc of ita sentences, whtdi are f,ho.-o of-, the Revolutionary Oommittee. Ifc is found ovory where.-- Ifc i a laid by unseen ; hands on* tho' '"Piaster's lable, is i-noxpeetedly.cliecoverod among tho banker's resistors; and tiid imperial councillor is astonished to meet with it amongst his papers •

-'■mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm^mmmmmmmm^mmm it is slipped furtively between the Bheets ot Conservative journals — in a word, ifc findß its way as if by enchantment on the tables of the cafet and into fche private houses of rioh and poor- Ifc appears twice a month, and advertisers for subscribers. Itmentions the Nihilist

piynphlets which 'Save appeared, and informs fch^piiblid that others bearing this or,that title are shortly to be published, the prices of „ whioh' are giverif but the editor contents hii__fv. self' with designating tho placo at whioh "lEey can bethought as tbe "well-known honso"' On the day after General Meßenti» zeff was murdered v fche Semla i Swaboda appeared illustrated wifch a large cartoon, in winch fche general was represented as lying in state, the first page being ocoupied with a kind of proclamation giving fche reasons whioh had decided fche Committee to pronounce sentenco of death upon him. Three days after the Becrefc printing office in St Petersburg were discovered by the Russian pohce a man was a«saasinated in Moscow, but who he was, arid why he had been murdered remained a mystery, till the Semla i Swaboda published the following notioe : — "On the 9th March fche traitor Reinatoin was exeouted in the Moscow Hotel, at Moscow;, Heinstein, a Polish Jew, disclosed to fche police the whereabouts of two of our printing offices." We have, therefore, killed him. The Govornment need nofc boast of having made ■any great discoveries ; it haa found nothing Of. any value. The editor's portfolio being seized has certainly caused us some inconvenience ; bufc aa wo never sign any of our articles the affair has no further importance. It will be useless to offer gold ; traitors will nob be found in our ranks. Reinstein was only.an agent, a newspaper distributor. We have at pur command Buch considerable sums of money thafc we can resist all attempts afc bribery. The exeoufcion of Mesenfczeff cost us six thousand roubles ; Krapofckin's nearly as much; nevertheless, we still possess four hundred thousand roubles for fche accomplishment of our work."