The Telephone. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1884.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 90, 20 March 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1884.

The bankrupt David Malcolm Orr has again been refused his discharge, the Registrar electing to refer the case to the next sitting of the Supreme Court In the face of the strongly adverse report which the trustees made, the Registrar could do no other, and undoubtedly exercised a wise discretion in adopting such a course, as it relieved him from a very embarrassing and serious responsibility. Now, whilst strongly deprecating the highly reprehensible conduct which the debtor has been guilty of, and fully agreeing with the withering censure which has been so unsparingly meted out to the delinquent, we cannot, in common fairness, help asking why this one instance has been singled out as a special mark for example ? Is it that his guilt has been more heinous than the late numerous army of unscrupulous tricksters whose ranks he has helped to swell—has he been more reckless and less cunning that he has been so persistently hounded, whilst others—and, to our mind, far worse examples—have been allowed to pass I

unchallenged and well-nigh unnoticed ? Or is it that he has shown a deficiency in tact in not—like his more lucky and more guilty imitators —securing accommodating trustees and “friendly” creditors, by judicious arrangements and cunning preferential payments? Whilst all honest men must heartily concur in any exposure and attack upon the scandalous and rascally method of-robbery which is so often successfully perpetrated under the name and guise of bankruptcy, yet we venture to say that we are by no meanssingular in our opinion that if any one is honest and thorough going in their desire to suppress this growing evil, and are not actuated by any unworthy motives, they will attack the whole system, quite irrespective of persons, and not single out any one special instance simply because it is brought close to their own door.