"SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE."

Evening Star, Issue 3650, 3 November 1874, Page 3

"SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE."

Can everything b.e said to be right in a country whose laws admit of a man, sr a woman either, conti acting debts hurriedly to the tune o£ some L3OO in the grat Ration of extravagant and illegitimate wants, and further admit of such a debtor taking French leave of a place without being liable to arrest ? Of course au honest person may contract debts, and .an hone d person may eave without being ablo to pay all he owes, hut in such a case a reasonable creditor will he content to bids his tims knowing his debtor’s honesty. When, however, people buy largely off 'shopnr u within a brief space of time, a d tnen have the locality suddenly without sailing on their drapers and jewellers, th. y should not be allowed to do so with impunity. Some provisions for the peremptory arrest of all su -h defaulters would sometimes further the ends of justice. There \a a law providing her the arrest of such persons f they attempt to leave the Colony, hut it might, we think, ho amended with advantage so as to sanction the arrest of this cDss of defaulters on attempting surreptitiously to leave the district in which they have contracted debts. The shopkeepers who sell to such persons are not always to blame, and certainly not in this case where the dishonest buyer is an old and not unreapected resident in the localitv. These remarks are prompted by the conduct of a levanting debtor who has resided for ten years in Invercargill.—Southland paper.