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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 40, 16 February 1880, Page 4

Four of the largest Trades. Unions in : , ; Great 'Britain have, during '- their comp«r*tively brief term of existence, spent over ,q-jeMp,OQO,JLn relieving the want of members °^t)D^fri»Bflr;;. jl '■' •■--■•* : - ■'■•* '-■-• The immense chicken-hatching establish??f^ of rre^ c . 8S1 S Roullier and Amonlt, at .Ganibaisp About 40 miles from Paris, France, has 30 incubators nt work, and up to Sept 4 r fPf b « seaßon these had safely turned out the ' almost incredible number of 42,660' chickens, t/i almost, JOJ pfcwhich seem to have "grown up well. This return is equal to the perfect work of neafly r 4o6b hena, sitting successfully s-'jon eleven -eggs each. : In an article on .the bankruptcy laws of New Zealand, tbe Aehburton Mml illustrates tbe.position'it takes up by quoting the fol:i'ow|«jrras,part of a letter lately addressed by » colonist io a friend in Great Britain : — . *'iPTOR r William,~This is one; or tbe freest countries in tbe. world of her Majesty's dominioos. A man who has no money and less reputation can do better here than in any other part; .of . .tbe world.. Nothing is caßier^than to get, credit to almost any extent, and, then, by going through ' themill,' the liabilities are winnowed from the hard f <Cßsb, th<j latter being left in tbe pockets of the bankrupt, while the former are thrown upon the hands of, the, creditors. When a ( jinanjp y^pprjcouh^ry becomes insolvent his ruin "Is complete.'. ...He comes out of the -. ■ yrbitewaahing .prpcess .penniless- a socinl "and moral bankrupt^ probably s to die, in a ■workhouse : but how different is the: case here I The Insolvency Court of New Zealand is frequently the, path which leads to fortune —the high roUd by. which many people : have passed 'oh to affluence and-— respectability. ■.