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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 514, 1 May 1880, Page 2

West : Coast Bankruptcies.—Mr L. L. Levy is coinpiling a list of all the bankruptcies which have occurried in the West Coast district in the;-'.three years: ending December, 1879, and for the first quarter of the present year, together with the names, residence, occupation, assets and liabilities, dividends declared and probable dividends, trustees, &c The list will bo complete in about a month, and will be. issued only to subscribers. “ May They Hand Together.” —A Scoth paper tolls a funny story concering the crisis of the British Cabinet when Lord Derby and the Earl of Canarvon withdrew their support frou the Beaconsfield policy. A Wesleyan Minister who was an ardent admiral* of Mr Gladstone, prayed for Heaven’s blessing on the ..ex-Premier in these somewhat ambiguous words, “ 0 Lord, at this critical juncture of events be pleased to grant that Mr Gladstone and his follow-redeemers of England may hang together.” On hearing this prayer a,.brother sitting...below who, was accus-i tomed to “Amen” in prayer-time, and who approved of Lord Beaconsfield’s policy on the Eastern question, exclaimed.“ Amen, amen, may they all hang together.” The Radical parson felt that ho was misunderstood and by way of explanation exclaimed “ 0 Lord, I do not mean ‘ hang together 1 in the sense which qur; down bolowi means it. 1 mean, may they in accord and concord hang together.” “ Amen, ainenj” replied the Conservative worshipper. “ [ don’t mind what the ‘cord’is .so long .%■ they hang by some cord.”