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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11132, 26 January 1899, Page 3

Seferring to the effort made to get Uia Marion Mitchell into the Jewish fold, the Auckland Star says :— Hitherto a •large wumber of intermarriages of this ikind have taken place in Australia, but ■the personnel of the " Beth Din " is such -that the tendency will be to restrict cases •of proselytism merely syith the object of ■marriage. We also beliaws jfchafc as a rule vthe proslyfcism of Jews to othor .faiths is ■very rare ; it is the Gentile that va^tMy iturns to the Jewish faith in cases of intermarriage. The severe monotheistic idea bb too deeply burst jato the minds of Jews for them to turn to fehe Christian Saith asatule. Consumption is responsible tor *t;cre •death? than any other disease. No lest! (than 623 persons die manually in New Zealand from consumption, and at rnadiwi.l authorities now hqld the disease to be not merely preventive, tytt curable, the directors of the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Societj iave hail 100,000 copies of a pamphlet iby Dr. P. Jamieson, printed for gro,tui'.tous circulation. The aoewty intiruat* vthat n, copy of it can be had .at theii •office os application, personally ac bj fetter