In the case of iv re Maokay, recently before the Court, and reported in the "New Zealand Jurist" for May, 1.77, Mr Justice Williams, in referring to this subject, says :—' It Avould have been very desirable that a clause of that kind should have been inserted, butifc was not inserted. The fact of its being inserted in the English Act of 1869, and in our own Act of lSo'7, seems to me to shew that it is accessary. The Legislature has not chosen to insert a clause of that kind, and I do not flullk it is open for the Court to say that such a provision shall be employed if the Legislature has not chosen to iusert it.'" It is manifestly uot only desirable, as Mr Justice Williams obserA-ed, that a clause compelling secured creditors to value or realiae securities, but the legislature could never have contemplated anything else And on examining previous Bankruptcy Acts, it becomes apparent that the omission is one chargeable upon the copyist, wiio, cribbing a clause from one statute, and one from another, to make up the new Act, has altogether overlooked the clause in the former law compelling secured creditors to realize before they descend on the small remnant left to their less fortunaie felloAV-suiierers. Such an omission is a commentary on our luavs—one Avhieh requires no illustration beyond that furnished in our daily telegraphic reports of the pro ceedings in the colonial legislature. :

To-morrow night Aye shall present our readers with an eight-page paper, contain ing a variety of matter to suit all tastes. i)r Skae, Major Green, and Mr Herapath iiave gone out to the Whan Lunatic Asylum this afternoon, to inspect the teui lorary repairs to the roof, which are now .omplete. Should their verdict be safcis :actory—of Avhich there is little doubt—the •emoA'al of the male patients hack to their .riginal quarters will be commenced forth .vitii. We hear complaints made by the iflicials in charge of the female 'patients at ,be old hospital of the persistent and im pertinent curiosity of respectable-looking .ersons, Avho come round the place, es pecially on .Sundays, and annoy and excite he unfortunate beings Avithin the building, vhh their remarks and general behaviour. .Ye could excuse people for evincing a little mriosify on. 