The chairman of the Cambridge Public Library desires to acknowledge the re ceipt of a handsomely bound copy of " Our First Century," from Major Hay The annual meeting of the Library will be held on Tuesday next. As this institution is now a corporate body, it is necessary to hold the annual meeting in January instead of July. We kaye been requested to correct an error in the obituary notice of Honora McGuire. Instead of 17th January, it should havo been the 20th. 'Jhe fault rests with tho undertaker who furnished the notice as it appears in our issue of 22nd. We understand many of the family were dissappointed in attending the funeral in consequence. The Government, it woidd «cem, are determined to take active measures for the recovery of the land tax, and summonses havo in somo cases already been issued. As some doubts appear to exist as to whether it is legally incumbent upon landowners to pay the tax, it may be worth while briefly to explain how the matter stands:—"Under the Land Tax Act, 1878, tho tax was iuado payable in

Owing t^^ressttSSSw^Plitr ' late fea terday we are compelled to hold oVer the full reports pf the C^ntSridgfr-.Farmers' v Club, School'OommitteEleQtton Meetings, arid the leading article. v ' ;

two half-yearly instalments, namely, on the first of April and the first of October. Owing to the delay which took place in the valuation and to the general mudcUe into which the administration of tHe Act' got, however, the first instalm^it was never collected, and the Groverm^ht di-, rected that the whole of the land-t&x for the year be paid between the first «fIC fourteenth of October. This was subse quently found to be illegal, and though many people did pay the whole amount required of them at that date, a great many more did not, and there is no doubt that no one could be compelled to do so. The Government having assured them selves that this was the case, introduced ft Bill in the late session for legalising the collection of the arrears of land tax, and that Bill subsequently passed into law as the Land' Tax Collection Act, 1879. Under it, the whole year's land tax is payable at once, and if not paid within the prescribed period it may be recovered by legal process as a debt to the Crown. 