But, whatever the roc yon, tlieve is no doubt of the fact, for we find iv the African Review an instantaneous photograph of the President airing himself iv State ; and, as Salem Scudder puts it, " the appara tus earnt lie.". The first experiences of Mr Thomas McKenzie (the oldest surviving first arrival in Wellington) were vividly described by that veteran colonist in the course of his lecture the other night. Thorndon Flat was then a Maori potato garden, and Mr McKenzie and another were the two first white men from the New Zealand Company's ships lo sleep on shore. They had just got inside a wharo when a Maori chief entered, and, gesticulating wildly with a tomahawk in his hand, was about to make an end of both of the white strangers, when bis wife took off her mat, threw it over the visitors, and bent her head, inviting her lord to slay her instead. The chief, in a dignified manner, deprecated such a violent proceeding, and the colonists' lives were safe. They subse quently learned that the hut had been built for Europeans, but had not been paid for, and the natives naturally enough felt aggrieved at the presence of the white men in the wharo. A case cropped up in Diinedin last week in which an application was made for an order for commitment of a debtor in default of payment of a debt, the debtor having already served one sentence in rcs2iect of the same debt. Mr Barclay, who made the application, argued ,that the man was punished by having an order made against him, not because he had not paid the debt, but because he had been guilty of contempt in refusing to obey the order of the Court. So far as the digest of eases went there did not appear to be any cases in which a man had been imprisoned a second time for the same debt. The Magistrate pointed out thivt'in the ease of a debt being made |'ay able by instalments, then each instalment could be treated as a seperate debt, and failing individual payments, an order in each instance could be obtained. In the present instance, however, that would not apply. He knew thnt several magistrates had held they had no power to imprison a second time in respect to the same debt. Tho order was accordingly refused. 