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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4, 25 January 1900, Page 17

MONASTERY OF THE SACRED HEART, BARBADOES STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. ri^HE Schools in connection with the above Institution, conducted -*- by the Sisters of " Our Lady of the Missions," will RE-OPEN on JANUARY 29, l!>on. Pupils prepared for Civil Service, Matriculation, Teachers' and Shorthand Examinations ; also for Theoretical and Practical Examinations of Trinity College and Royal Academy, London. Prospectuses for Boarders, High School, and Kindergarten Pupils can be obtained from THE REVEREND MOTHER PRIORESS. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 4 Complaints re irregular Delivery of Paper should be made without delay to the ManagerAll Communications with the Commercial Department of the 'NZ. Tablet' Newspaper are to be addressed to John Murray, Secretary, to whom all Post Office Orders and Cheques are in all instances to be made payable. Annual Subscription, 255. booked; 225. 6d. if paid in advance ; shorter periods at proportional rates. NOTICE. All communications connected with the literary depart ment, reports, correspondence, nevosba her cuttings, etc., should be addressed to the Editor. Correspondents forwarding obituary and marriage notices are particularly requested to be as concise as possible. Correspondents are particularly requested to bear in mind that to insure publication in any part cular issue of the paper communications must reach this Office not later than Tuesday morning. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. Enquirer. — The reply to your communication is, with other matter, crowded out of this issue. WANTED. ri^EACHER wanted for the Roman Catholic School, St. Bathane ; X must be able to play church music ; apply with references to Mr. ORegan, St. Bathans. Fiat Justitia. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1900. THE BUBONIC AND OTHER PLAGUES. *s§& —^ — \C^rar HE genus of the bubonic plague are massing, J^f !] Iv-I though as yet in small force, upon our front jw !] IjL and flank — in Australia and New Caledonia. /fcr^-rj To the dusky races in India and the yellow "cjk^i^* people in China they have already been as a ifiKxJH^pfo devastating war, and have wrought a havoc \ 4ffi y which recalls the story of the Black Death and » the Sweating Sickness and the Great Plague of London. Medical science, improved sanitation, and stringent precautions as regards traffic with infected ports may, we trust, keep the unwelcome bacilli of the bubonic plague from our shores. The swift and melancholy death of a devoted Catholic doctor in Vienna last year goes to show that for the white man as for the yellow man this new and little-known plague is a veritable king of terrors. At the same time the whole-souled devotion of the two nuns who