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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 37, 4 January 1889, Page 29

Mr. John Finucane, S ember cf Prtrliament for Hast 1 imeiick. will biniJ a suu anaiuht the London Times for libel, for stating th.it i i a spie'h ho advis'd tho farricis in Ireland not io refuse io shoe the land-grabber's horses, bu to shoe them and drive the urvils i ito the quick.

The di-covery of a number of cis?B of leprosy by San Francisco physicians nmoug the hoodlums of that city who smoke cigarettes made by Chinamen, is a very s,e:ious warning to the smokers of this abominable rubbish.

Great Britain is worrying aboat the rapidly increasing number of its lunatics. It appear* tn.it those supported by thu Gusernment Vone have grown to 75,000. It is all attributed to the hurry of modem hff.

A. gro esque proposition enm^« fr< m certain Sp'ritualwts, who propose to a»k tho Massachusetts Legis.atuie to pension th ■ d^sc nuaota of those perßons executed in Salem iv 1692 for witchcraft.