The Deputy-Assignee stated that Mi Aldrich had paid about 8s 2d in the £. His Honor s.tid the case was an uu satisfactory one, as bankrupt had onlj failed 20 months previously. The ordei of discharge would be suspended for 12 months, In re W. H. S. Roberts. — Application for an order of discharge. Mr Bute ap peared in support of the application. His Honor said that debtor had bought sheep three or four months prior to his bankruptcy, and at that time bankrupt must have known that he was then in solvent. Discharge would be suspended for six months. In re Robert Ross. —Application for an order for the sale of a deferred payment section. Mr Newton appeared for bank rupt. Mr Clement, of Waimate, appeared to support the application, aud also a proof of debt of Messrs Cameron Bros. His clients had been informed that there would be nothing in the estate, and did not prove. His Honor said if the other creditors went to the trouble of proving and ascer taining what was in the estate it was hardly fair to the others that they should come and share with those had taken the trouble about it ; still, as there were no assets in the estate save those which Messrs Cameron Bros, were trying to unearth, the proof would be admitted. Mr Clement also asked that the Court would direct that some deferred payment iaud should be handed over to the Deputy Official Assignee for the benefit of the creditors, Mr Newton opposed the request ; such lands being exempt from the operation of the bankruptcy laws, as the property was not, according to the Land Act, divisible among the creditors, After argument, His Honor said he was very sorry he had to give hi? decision against the ap plication. He was obliged to hold upon the decision given by his Honor Mr Jus tice Denniston that " all the conditions and traditions as used in the section of the Land Act bearing on the question meant" all the conditions up to the end of the license, and that the Act protected the deferred payment settler against his creditors in bankruptcy. Ross was a rogue and a swindler, who had obtained the materfals for building a house without paying for them, and put them upon this, land which was secured against his creditors. 