We understand that the Inspectors in Bankruptcy, who have recently met in thi» city to report on the Debtore and Creditors Act, have recommended several material alterations in the regulations at pre sent in existence. — Advertiser. We have been requested by Mr. Brown, the con tractor for the telegraph extension to Masterton, to call attention to the fact that a great number of the insulators .between Kaiwarawara and Ngahauranga have been destroyed by some mischievous persons. Great inconvenience to the public irill arise fren»

■ ia always kept secret, in case the relatives of per sons he may have eaten should come mnd disinter tne body, and eat it. A case of this sort I have heard on good authority. A woman belonging to the Thames married a Ngaiterangi living at Otumoetai, and some time after * l f father came over to see her. Wnue at Otumoetai the old man died. The body had lam for several days, when the husband said to the daughter, " Why do you not bury your father? " Because I have no place to bury him." " Bury him at the back of the bush there." This was done, > but in a few days after the woman noticed that her husband's lips were very greasy, which be said was caused by the birds or fish he had been eating. Shortly after the woman saw a dog running about with one of the tapued baskets in which human flesh was kept. She caught the dog, and, finding the human flesh, suspected what was the fact, for, on going to where her father's body had been laid, she found that it had been disinterred, and partly eaten, to satisfy some old unavenged grudge. Much has been written about what originated cannibalism. I am char it originated in nothing but the feeling of revenge, but that some men, acquiring » liking for it, killed their slaves to eat. So Tomika was buried at night, and only five of his nearest relatives know the place of sepulture. While we were at the tangi or the feasting, Penetaka and some others of the rebels came down, and a man named Puru went up to see them. The substance of their korero, as reported to us, was that the Eauhaus had no intention of coming in. " Your god is a false one," <aid Puru. 