SIXTY YEARS AGO. FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1864.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 10

SIXTY YEARS AGO. FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1864.

Wo understand that Mr John Cargill has been appointed Major of Militia, and that he has received instructions to at once call out the Militia in Otago. This stage has no doubt been taken in accord with a resolution proposed by Major Richardson during the last meeting of the Assembly, and assented to by tho House. It was as follows:—“That it is highly expedient that the provisions of the Militia Act should be strictly carried out in the Middle Island until such time as tho whole .male population between tho ages of sixteen and fifty-five, with tho exception of that portion which is exempted by law, are sufficiently organised and drilled to take an effective part in the defence of the Colony.” We understand that something like fifty still-births have been registered among tho deaths of Dunedin during the last two or three years. It is not usual to adopt this course; in fact, it is irrational, since there can be no death when there has been no life. In the remarks that have frequently been made concerning the comparative rates of mortality in Dunedin and other places, the former lias of course suffered an injustice to tho extent of the number of still-births included in the returns.