THE HOSPITAL.

Southland Times, Issue 659, 19 April 1867, Page 2

THE HOSPITAL.

Invercargill has long been remarkable for the abortive attempts that have been made to establish institutions of a class that almost universally command support in every British community. It is generally the boast of Englishmen that wherever they go they plant those institutions .that have honored the "fatherland," and rendered their race conspicuous as the guardians ofthe afflicted, the promoters of popular knowledge, and the disseminators of all that is noble and human I Ifc is with humility that we are compelled to confess that in Southland there are few monuments of this' feeling ! having taken root. It is true £hat from time to time attempts have been made to establish Mechanics' Institutions, Literary Societies, Benevolent Associations, and a desire on the part of the peoplo has. been evinced to efface the " plague spot" of having to depend upon the Government to maintain the institution that it should be their pride to. support — tbe Hoapual The Proviiioial il<>Bpi;al has now become a, public msfcitutiyu!"*»the •

people are called upon to accept » responsibility that, it will be an honor^ to discharge, and a disgrace to reject,'. The succour of the afflicted is a -duty p. devolving on the less Unfortunate of the community that cannot be honorably slighted. The Hospital has passed from the Government to the public upon moßt liberal conditions. The committee enter upon their labors i™der most favorable circumstances, and if they do not succeed in making it a popular and amply-supported institution it will be a reproach to the^ Province. It is, therefore, to b? hoped that every- man in the Province will do something towards supporting the Hosj pital— the chief of benevolent institutions, •—an institution that .knows no class, sect, 6r country; and has but one aim, j object, or creed— chabity.^