The value then was £500, 1 think. I entirely dispossessed my self of all my property at that time, except the stock. I did not do it purposely to defraud my creditors. The deeds of conveyance were re gistered at different times. I did not inform my creditors of what 1 had done. [Mr. Marsh here said: It is as necessary that you should be civil to me as that I should be civil to 7 °Mr. Eussell craved the indulgence of the creditors, saying that he hoped Mr. Marsh would not be uncourteously treated. The Chaieman did not think that anything improper had been put in the interrogations. .Examination continued: The deeds are m Mr. Eussell's office. I don't know when they were registered. I think the first was registered about March. I did not make all the convey ances at one time. Mr. Wynn : Your love and affection grew stronger month by month ?— Witness : Yes. The deeds were then produced by Mr. Eussell. 7 Examination continued : By one deed 1 make all the stock-in-trade away, but that refers to the Symonds-street shop. It is conveyed for my son, Josiah Marsh. I had assigned' 'the htuje to my wife first, and, then, the itool^-in-

ing through the various rocks and minerals above mentioned, there are several kinds: Ist The white crystallic and compact veins, often a foot or more wide, and containing no gold. 2nd Gross minor veins, of similar character, equally without gold. 3rd. Coarse" texture quartz veins, generally narrow, two or three inches only in thickness, frequently laminated, mixed apparently with earthy matter, called by the miners " rotten, ' encrusted with the peroxide of iron, and fre quently associated with quantities of mundic or iron pyrites, more or less auriferous. ■Now the question occurs as to in what rock shall these auriferous veins, or "leaders," be sought, and here we must notice the diversity, amounting, indeed, to a contradic tion, in the reports of Dr. Hector and Captain Hutton. 