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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 420, 26 April 1879, Page 2

It will be remembered (says the Auckland Weekly News), that at the last meeting of the Waitemata County Council it was decided to take the opinion of Messrs Whitaker and Bussell as to the liability of Maoris for rates in the County. Yesterday Mr Seaman obtained their opinion, which is as follows ;—“Sub-section 4 of section 37 of tbe Rating Act, 1876, for the exemption from rates of land over which the native title has not been extinguished and lands in respect of which a certificate of title or memorial of ownership has been issued, if in the occupation of aboriginal natives only,” Natives holding under Crown grants are liable as other persons to be,>Tated ; but not holding under certificate of title, when the land is in their own occupation ; if it is not in their own ■occupation, ttie occupiers are liable. Bates due from natives can be recovered in the same manner as rates from other persons, A novel proposal for tbe burial of the dead is made by Mr John McKay, of Malvern Hill, Victoria. That gentleman, invented a well-boring machine capable of excavating holes 2ft in diameter to a depth of 50ft or GOft at a very small cost. It is proposed to utilise it for burial purposes, Jetting the coffins down end-ways, so that the de-ad would remain in a vertical position. For this purpose the graves might be made 12ft or 15ft deep, and in suitable soil the expense of boring would be very limited. By this plan three or four limes as many bodies could be buried in a given space, and the extra depth would, it is'tvged, . prevent the rising of those gasses, which in the ordinary gravovardsare so delete.ions to human life. Another ingenious inventor has proposed that coffins in ordinary graves should be hermetically sealed in by layers of Portland cement. Holloway's Pills. —Mind and body are so*closely entertwined chat for the former i to"bo vigorous the hatter must be healthful. The first step towards the maintenance of ' health is to secure per feet digestion, which is readily obtained by this noted medicine, the most competent efitectuaijy to restrain every adverse influence which can mar, impair, or vexatiousiy modify this all-im-portant process. The student, merchant, man of pleasure, and humblest laborer may each in turn derive vigor, ease, and strength from occasional doses, or a longer course of Holloway’s purifying Pills. However wavering the mind, or unstrung the nerves this fine medicine will track the derangement to .its source, where it will overthrow it, and establish order and parity in its place.