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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 227, 27 November 1866, Page 3

In the hurry yesterday, in the paragraph relating to the fire, fifth line, after the words " little engine," the Avord " formerly " was left out. The third Quarterly Conversazione of the Nelson Artisans' Mutual Improvement Association, wfll be held in the Temperance Hall, to-morroAv evening, at 8 o'clock. This is a meeting got up by the members for the purpose of providing an evening's entertainment for their friends. We wish the members success in their laudable efforts. The Melbourne Argus strongly urges the adoption of an uniform postal and telegraphic rate throughout the whole of the Australias, it says: —Postal and telegraphic management should be conducted on strictly business principles. The transmission of mformation and the interchange of ideas are important agents of civilizatfon, and when Government has command of the^ media of such transmission and interchange,"rMs bound to afford everypossible facility for their being freely used by the public, even though some loss of revenue should accrue from the lowering of postal and telegraphic fees. A nice point of law-has recently been deI cided in the Supreme Court at Sydney; in which Mr. W. M. Millar, solicitor, of Deniliquiu, was plaintiff. The Court has ruled that a promise to pay a debt incurred by iusolvent before insolvency, made by insolvent after sequestration, and before obtaining his certificate, is good and binding on the insolvent, in the event of an action being brought for the payment of the debt. We (Wellington Advertiser) would call the attention of our readers to the ruling given by his Honor Justice Johnston, with, regard to the maintenance of debtors detained in prison by their creditors. By this ruling it will be seen that if the maintenance money is not paid for two weeks, the debtor can make affidavit to that effect, and give notice to the creditor that he is going to apply for his discharge from custody, when he will be entitled to his discharge. Debtors must not imagine that this frees them from their liabilities, but simply from detention in gaol by the creditor, who has failed to pay the ss. a week. We may add that as some debtors | are unable to go through the necessary forms from waut of funds, his Honor has announced that he will remit the Court fees on affidavit being made that the insolvents cannot pay them. Of course they render themselves liable to a charge of perjury if the oath taken should prove to be false. Orders were given for the discharge of tAvo men. named Legg and Taylor who had made application to the Court, on their complying with the necessary requirements.

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