SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 395, 21 April 1902, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

(Before His Honor Mr Justice Conolly.) w. o. sheet’s estate. In this estate Mr A. W. Bees applied for an order of discharge. Mr DeLautour appeared for the Deputy Official Assignee, and offered no objection. It was ex-

pected that the estate would realise a little over 7s in the pound.—Application granted. a. f. cuff’s estate. Mr R. N. Jones applied for an order of discharge in the above estate. Everything was in order, and the Assignee’s report was favorable. Application granted. IN CHAMBERS. On the motion of Mr C. A. DeLautour, Messrs Vincent Barker and T. A. Coleman were admitted as solicitors. In connection with the notice of motion of the Tahora No. 2c 3 section, 2 block, to remove the caveat lodged by the Bank of New Zealand in respect to the block, Mr DeLautour asked for an adjournment until next week, which was granted.

Mark Twain told an after.dinner story in New York, which is now being much quoted. Once, while residing temporarily in England, he was subjected to a tax, and lie wrote to 'Queen Victoria “ a friendly .otter ot protest.” He said “ 1 don’t know you, but I’ve met your son. He was at the head of a procession in the .Strand, and I was on a ’bus. tears afterwards he met the Prince of Wales at Hamburg. They had a long walk -and talk together. When bidding him good-bye, the Prince said, lam gU>*o have met you again. T ' ,s troubled Mark Twain, who feared that lie had been mistaken for s. mconc else—perhas Bishop Potter. He communicated this suspicion to the Prince, who replied, “ Why, don’t you remember when you met me in the Stralia, and I have read nearly cvcrytliUfa that Mark Twain has written, including all his books of travel.”

Lady Lecturer on Woman’s Rights (waxing warm) : “ Where would man be if it had not been for woman . After a pause, and .ooking round the Pall —“ I repeal, where would man be it it had not been for woman ?' Voice from the Gallery : “ -»n I aradise. ma’am.”

UlbU, iua dm. The cost of the New Zealand Hansard last year was only £Sooo—just .£IOOO more than the Imporial Parliament, which costs £7OOO a year. But the. English Hansard contains only the “separated cream ” of Parliament, while if some of the speeches were printed in N.Z. Hansard as delivered in the House, the list of sudden deaths and the list of asylum inmates would go up with a bump.—Southern paper.

paper. The demand for subscriptions is bad enough, but to call'upon the destitute, the halt,"the blind, and the infirm to stand and deliver, marks a condition of things ■which we can hardly imagine existing outside of a savage community, where tithes are levied by force, the penalty for refusal being dismemberment or death. Sydney Truth. There is a tendency among some teachers to talk rather too much of the strain their profession entails upon them, and to expect rather more than their proper share of holidays.—Wellington Post.