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Dunstan Times, Issue 535, 19 July 1872, Page 2

The sum of of 3000f. was pciiil into the Auckland Provincial Treasury on the 28th ulfc., for publicans’ licenses. Traffic has been discontinued on the Launceston and Deloraine railway, for want of funds. That that dire of all diseases, small pox has been introduce! into the Colonies there is no doubt, as from Victoria, Wellington, and Auckland, come the sad tale of death from its effects. We join with our contemporaries, and urge upon all the necessity of vaccination. The great moral of the Tichhornc case, though we have not as yet seen it mentioned is the desireableness of tattooing youthfil heirs. Every young gentleman who has a fair prospect of inheriting a title or an estate should be indelibly marked in his infancy. It would bo easy to arrange the marks in such away as to defy the ingenuity of forgers. It might be contrived, for example, that a pattern should bo made by a machine on the skin like the complex device on a bank note. The original instrument would then be laid up in the family archives, and could be produced in case of necessity. A very little ingenuity would suffice to perfect this rough suggestion; and it would be inexcusable not to bestow as much care on securing the idcntilication of a human being as is generally bestowed upon our shirts and tablecloths. Before long we expect to see an advertisement in all th* papers, “Do ycu tattoo your children yet?”— Saturday Review.