It has been reserved for Adelaide to present us with the latest marked instance of the law's delays. And a cruel instance it is, in all faith. Years ago (says the Melbourne correspondent of an exchange) a man named Whittaker inherited an estate byroasonof being next of kin. Ho journeyed all the way from tho States in tho hopes of enjoying his property, valued at some £10,000. But tho law had got its grip on the estate, and the carcase was much too fat a one to relinquish whilo there was a scrap of flesh on it. Year by year law point after law point was raised, and bills of cost by tho thousand folios piled up. Now Whittaker would win tho day. Then the Crown would appeal and the case would be set back. Whittaker meanwhile was forced to work literally by the sweat of his brow to keep things going. The years followed one another, and found Whittaker still fighting, tooth and nail, for his just rights, remember At last, after 20 years' struggling, the Crown was finally beaten. But the £10,000 had long sincft gone into the pockets of the advocates- Whittaker himself could put eight years on to man's allotted span. King Death too was abroad, and right on tho moment of his triumph gathered the victor in after the latter suffering from a fatal fit of apoplexy.
