Mi" Cotter said that, acting as ho was doing on behalf of the friends of the man McKenzie, he had practically watched the case aa it was proceeding, instead of acting in ifc, and, therefore, had perhaps a better opportunity of judging the merits of the evidence than his friends Mr Rees or Mr Cooper. The charge against Dr. Collins appeared to him to be that of non-attention rather than malpractice. In an institution like the Auckland Hospital tho Medical Superintendent should bo able to exercise ordinary skill in the treatment of every patient admitted to the Hospital, and he maintained that the evidence showed that Dr. Collins had not done so. There was really, up to the Bth of November, nothing done to the man in the Hospital that might not have been done at Kamo. The charge of non-attention against Dr. Collins referred to tho time of the admission of McKenzie to the Hospital, when the friends of patients looked to Dr. Collins to do more in his capacity as Medical Superintendent than ho had done, and the evidence showed conclusively that ho only made a perfunc tory examination of McKenzie's injuries. He submitted that Dr. Collins was exag gerating when ho said that his superficial examination of the man's injuries gave him as much knowlodgo of the wound as Dr. Bell's examination ab Whangarei did. He did not claim from Dr. Collins that he should have called a consultation on the actual ovening of the man's examination, but he held that next day, when the thorough examination took place, and they were assured of the serious nature of tho man's injuries, a speedy consultation should havo been called to save the man's limb or lifo. He sub mittod that the consultation was only held at last when the man had become so bad and his state bo dangerous that hie chances of life or death were only just balanced. The man was allowed to linger on until the patch of gancrreno appeared on his leg, and only then did Dr. Collins call a consultation. Tho consultation, ho maintained, should have been held some throe or four days before it actually was, for Dr. Collins should havo seen from the stato of the man's leg that ho was in an extremely serious case. Then, to take Dr. 