BANKRUPTCY COMMISSIONERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 51, 30 January 1869, Page 6

BANKRUPTCY COMMISSIONERS.

- f f Tb6 Commiißionert, you see, don't Agnee as td their interpretiitioh 6f then* Sitieß. 1 Qne^'ail^i' th' 6 creditoi's 1 ; th^ otter's all for debtors. Eighty per cent of the remands, I'm told, come from the chief commisaioner. Hie other always does his best to pull aid push the debtor through the Act. The chief comes down heavily on de. fectiv6 schedules — takes them home with him to pore over, as though they yrere the most jnterestins reading out, sits up with them all night, as though they were sick children — tries all^ie knows how to jjick a hole in them and 'send the debtor back. He's a wonderful nose for a fraud, and if he once gets on the scent he never loses.it. ' I sit in this court and am paid £1,500 a year,' he says solemnly, ' to guard the interests of the public against fraud like this, and whilst the discretionary clauses hold a place in the statute, I'll permit no one in the position of this .debtor to escape impunity.' The other .commissioner takes things easily, as a ,cule. ' The man's discharged,' he says generally; ' call the next case.' And pe's given now and then~to chaffing the decisions of the chief. *My colleague has stated,' he says, ' that he sits for protection of the general community. Well, I interpret my function differently. According to the preamble of the act, I sit here emphatically to relieve insolvent -debtors. I intend to relieve them as much as I possibly can." — " Over Head and Ears," brDwtton Cook. Mr. Cheale, manager of the St. Arnaud .Gold and Silver Mining Company, on returning to the mine alter dinner on the 12th January, about one o'clock p.m., -was met by one Andrew Vair, who shot iiim in the abdomen. Mr. Cheale fell, pierced by two bullets fired from one Qanttl of a double-barrelled gun, and died «n hour afterwards. At the magisterial inquiry to-day, a warrant was granted for Yaur's arrest. He isa man about sft. 6in. in height, of light complexion, powdermarked in the face, has light blue «yes, and is a Highlander by birth.