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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 366, 13 March 1871, Page 2

Agaln" and again from various districts complaints have come, regarding neglect on tho part of the various subenumerators, and if these complaints are not exaggerated, the census returns must necessarily be somewhat defective. This ia the more to be regretted, as the province will need all the money to which it will be entitled as capitation allowance, in view of the public works required. We do not know if there is any way of making these sub-enumerators responsible for a neglect which will be felt in a tangible form by the Provincial Treasury. As every omission of a name is a los 3 to the province of a couple of pounds for the first year, and an annual loss on the decreasing scale of the capitation allowances, until the next taking of the census, such errors are really deplorable, and if there is any way in which such culpable negligence could be treated as a criminal offence, the officers of the law might employ themselves in its execution with great general satisfaction. But we we presume the sub-enumerators will expect payment for their work, we sincerely trust that every proved omission of a name from their returns will be charged to them according to the loss sustained by the province. Nothing could be more equitable. If those gentlemen undertook a certain duty, and if that duty has been neglected, the pecuniary loss thereby sustained by the province should be recouped from their commissions.

Ik connection, with the Slaughter-' house at Newmarket, we have incidentally learned that some most scandalous and disgusting revelations have come to light. We have heard enough to disturb the epigastric regions of any ordinary man for a week ; and though we do not desire the nausea of the community, we think the public should learn what it is they have occasionally eaten. It is said, "..When ignorance is bliss, :tis folly to -be wise" ; and if health, aud even life, were not endangered, we should act on the principle that " What the eye never saw the hearb should not grieve for." But if it is so that, like vultures, we have been feeding on carrion, sanatory considerations demand our enlightenment.