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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1888, 6 November 1874, Page 3

In the Cliristchuich pipers of the 28th ultimo there are 28 oases of bankruptcy set down for hearing. The correspondent of a Southern journal, writing from Ohristchurch, says: —Without by any meina wishing to be considered a croaker, 1 am inclined to endorse the remarks of one of our morning papers, when it states that "there is considerable want of confidence with regard to money; and though the bills due on the Ith were, with ve:y few exceptions, promptly met, yet thore is a feeling that the worst has not yet passed over.' For there is no gainsaying the fact that there has been a considerable amount of over-trading in almost every branch of business, and somebody must suffer. Public works employing plenty of labour and material flaid out of public loans are well in their way, but there is a liability to a fictitious sense of confidence engendered thereby, and unless I am mistaken it is just this false confidence that is beginning to totter. The spring will give matters'a fresh impetus, but it will be only temporary, in fact, prolonging the agony so to speak, until a deal more caution is exorcised as well in private as in public undertakings, and until this oautiou h'is been learnt in more than one instance by bitter experience A Wisconsin minister has been dismissed from an orthodox pulnib because he built a, lice ;uft<lejr;tj ( iubinglw(!;e.,