FiRSX HEAKING FIXED FOB SEPTEMBER 30TH. " ' Joms M'Citrdy, wood and coal dealer, Dunedin. Debts, L 363 Is; assets, Ll6O 12s, of which L 136 is the value of real and personal property : deficiency, L 202 9s. Causes of insolvency: Pressure of creditors, and iuability to pay all!debts in full. Petition accepted August 9th. Vest ing order in favor of the Inspector. Pro tection granted. E. F. Ward, Dunedin, solicitor. ." .;. r •.... \

Landscape Art.—English ■». French. - —-One remarkable contrast between Eng lish landscape and all else is that Hve paint the sunlight and' that the continental artkts are afraid of it. Go through all the galleries, but especially through the French ones, before you come; to the English side. See the dim sort of day in which nearly all French landscape is painted. Either it is not day at all, but the dead of night, now and then illum ined by the moon, or it 'is twilight, or it is cloudy weather, or there is a storm, or there is the shadow of a great mountain to keep away the light. If there happens to be a gleam of sunshine in one of their pic tures, it is but a little timid light—you hardly see it—you are apt to overlook it. The moment we come to the English pic tures we find ourselves basking in the sun. Ther.eis np mistake aboiit it. The sun is shining warm.arid bright upon us, and we enjoy it. Surely it is odd that we who. live in a land of cloud arid: mist ,shquld paint the sunlight; and that painters who live in a far sunnier climate should seem to avoid it.as a pest, and to shrink away like bats to the twilight. 