NEWS OF THE DAY.
The BAirEBPPTor Laws. —A special meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to consider the replies drafted by the committee to certain queries from the committees of both Houses as to the amend ments considered necessary in the Bankruptcy Act. After a somewhat lengthy discussion, the report of the committee was adopted with some slight amendments. It was resolved to call the attention of the Government to the anomaly existing in the present Act by which a debtor could be summoned to give evidence on oath before a trustee, but was liable to no penalty for false statements.
DiSAPPBAEAiroB. — This mys terious affair was brought forward yesterday at the Besident Magistrate's Court on the civil side. The occasion was a suit by Mrs Vermel, the intention of which was to convert to her benefit certain property left by the missing man. Mrs Yennel andjthe dereliot, though married, were separated by deed, and the discontinuance of the allowance she re ceived has reduced her to great straits since his disappearance. The Bench, while regret ting their inability to do otherwise than non suit the plaintiff, suggested that the property —horses —in question might be made to con tribute to her maintenance, without legal danger to the defendant.
