MISCELLANEOUS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 924, 8 July 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The people of Napier omitted their usual Queen's Birthday festivities this year, to mark their sense of the extent to which the district has suffered from sickness and death. For the same reason the Freemasons and the Oddfellows omitted their usual annual celebrations. The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argius saysDr Kenealy, ex-Q.C., and actually M.P., was committed to prison for cruelty to his own illegitimate daughter, and had his term of punishment shortened through the benevolent interference of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, over whom he now pours vials of his vulgar wrath. Referring to the measle plague at Fiji, the Wellington Post says : —" Many years ago, the Middle Island, or southern portion of it, was nearly depopulated with the same scourge. The Maoris died literally by hundreds. There is on the coast of Otago a small bay, known as Measly Bay, where tons of human bones used to lie around, the skeletons being those of natives who died from the measles. This beach seems to have been a favorite place of those seized with the illness to come and die. It may not be very long before we have an outbreak of a similar kind in the North Island." According to the census returns, there is only one beggar in New Zealand, and he is in Canterbury. Happy land, with all thy burden of taxation ! The LytteUon Times advocates that all charitable institutions should be supported by a property tax. Our contemporary says : —We are quite willing to believe that the practical philanthropy of a man increases with his wealth. At least it ought to do, and should be taken for granted that it does. Hospitals, charities, asylums, and with these gaols, police, and magistrates are provided for by the Country Property Rates of England. It is now time that they should be provided for by the property rates here. 1 The present Government deserve the credit of starting the questions which lead to this answer. They have announced the sudden and permanent reduction of the land fund which has so long come conveniently, if not altogether with the strict consistency of principle, between us and taxation. We believe they have acted in this matter from thorough conviction. We are prepared to believe that they will-carry out their convictions in accordance with the principles of traditional usage and of a sound political economy. Jlolloway's Pills.—Enfeebled Existence.—This medicine embraces every attribute required in a general and domestic remedy; it overturns the foundations of disease laid by defective food and impure air. In obstructions or congestions of the liver, lungs, bowels, or any other organs, these Pills are especially serviceable and eminently successful. They should be kept in readiness in every family, being a medicine of incomparable utility for young persons, especially those of feeble constitutions. They never cause pain or irritate the most sensitive nerves or most tender bowels. Holloway's Pills are the best known puriiiers of the blood, the rndat active promoters of absorption and secretion, whereby all poisonous and obnox'ous particles are removed from both solids and fluids.