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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 920, 13 October 1879, Page 2

On the order paper of the House of Representatives the following notice of motion .appears in Mr. Ormond's name :— " That a select committee, consisting of thirteen members, be appointed to enquire into and report generally upon the expenditure during the year ended 30th June, 1879, and for the quarter euded 30th September, 1879, under the votes for native purposes and native land purchases. Such report to be accompanied by a detailed statement of the whole expenditure during the abovenamed period,* classified in such a manner as the committee may consider desirable, and specifying the vote to which each class of expenditure has been charged. The report to include a statement of the cost of each of the principal native meetings which members of the Government have attended. The committee have power to call for persons and papers, and to consist of Hon. Sir George Grey, Hon. Mr. Sheehan, Mr. Rolleston, Major Atkinson, Mr. Swansou, Mr. Whyte, Mr. Turnbull, Mr. Beetham, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Tawhai, Mr. Tomoana, and the mover. The committee to report within one month from date of appointment ; five to be a quorum."

A gentleman, in a position to. testfyhe accuracy got ißhat he states ' (saysMWflHavokes Bay Mkrald), has written- to a ' friend ifi^Napi^j stating that a loan and ■ mortgage <• conjpany, not unknown in iHawke's Baj^has £200,000 now on the way out from England. There are many absurdities in the way the Land Tax Act is administered, but here is a glaring one. People who are wrongfully served with notices that they are liable to be rated for properties which they do not possess;"ftbi: or wBiSIT Iffiey* know any more than does.the man fin the moon, are compelled to make affidavit of the fact their being the. _ wrong pgjMes^ and at. tlieir own cost, they must stamp "the, forms of affidavit ! An imbecile and grossly unjust way of increasing the revenue surely., And.as the names of those who are compelled to disclaim acknowledge, of landed property sought .under the Act to be affixed to them, is legion, this absurd feature of the Act is found Very oppressive. . In Philadelphia a murder trial has been the occasion of a very forcible dramatic situation. The man had been convicted of killing his own daughter under circumstances t>f aggravated brutality, ..T^e defence showed that he had always been a good and humane man until he sustained a severe injury to the skull ; but the jury, after hearing from the medical experts that there was no trace of permanent injury. r , found him guilty. 'While* receiving' -MB 1 ' sentence, however, the man committed, suicide in open court, by swallowing a fem 4 grains of strychnine. Foaming at itier* mouth, and writhing in muscular agony, he was removed to a cell to .die., ; And then, on the post mortem examination, .it was,, proved that there had been really a fractureof the skull, and that the man was actually irresponsible. Holloway's Pills.— A certain cure fpr J 'Headaches, Bile, Loss of Appetite, and LWness of Spirits. — These Pills can be taken without danger from wet 01 cold , and requiries no interruption from business or pleasure. They act mildly on the. bowels, strengthen the atomaebV arid promote a healthy action of the liver, whereby they purify the blood, cleanse the. skin, brace the nerves, and invigorate the whole., system. They effect a truly wonderful change in a debilitated constitution, as they create a healthy appetite, correct, indigestion',' remove bile, ."^giddiness, 3head^ ' ache, and palpitation of the heart. . Plain directions for the use of this medicine,, at . once so mild and efficacious, are affixed to each box. . '