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Kumara Times, Issue 838, 7 June 1879, Page 4

We recently published an article from the London Punch showing how trustees and solicitors wound up estates in Great Britain. That we in hew Zealand are not beh ndhind,'the following extract from the Wanganui Herald bearß out:—The bill of costs rendered by the solicitor for the trustee in Nathan and Wilkie's estate amounts to the modest figure of over LBOO. This will just about use up the entire proceeds of the estate, so that the trustee is thereby saved the trouble of calculating a dividend, Ucrtwo of the creditors, however, evidently of a ducdntented turn of mind, object to the nice little arrangement, and have called on the trustee to convene a general meeting of those interested. In commenting on the case of the Maor Hiroki, charged with obstructing a railway train, the flew Zealander says:—Another instance of the absurd method of dealing with Maori offenders against the law is shown in our telegrams. A Maori chief chooses to obstruct the passage of a railway train, by placing sleepers across the rails ; a most serious offence under the Railways Act. He has been arrested, or ratber as it has been mildly put, "brought in," and charged with the offence and remanded, but allowed to go at large under surveillance, virtually in custody, as stated, " though he does not know it." Why was not this Maori treated as a European offender would have been for this offence ; either called on to find substantial bail or locked up ?