SULLIVAN (Michael), Streatham. July 1: Clements, Williams, and Co., STEEL (James Elmes), Liverpool. STANFORD (John), Eastbourne. June 26; J. E. Stanford, Savoy-manз, Strand. TULLOCH (Jane), Bayswater. July 3; Farrer and Co., 66, Lincoln's-innflds. W.C. TREHANE (Elizabeth), Exeter. June 24; Dunn and Baker, Exeter. TAYLOR (Editha Agnes), Cirencester. July 1; Adams and Colvile, 8. Old TOWNSON (Sarah Jane), Bath. June 30; H. W. Belcher, at the office of Stones, Morris, and Stone, 5 Finsbury-cir, E.C. TRAVERS (Frederick William), Horsham and Altrincham. June 30; H. Travers, 31, Budge-row, E.C. VICKERS (Mark), Great Saughall and Birkenhead. July 22; Hindley and WATES (Mary Purser), Bromley. June 26; Slack, Monro, and Atkinson, WILSON (John Ackril), Market Rasen. July 7; Frearson and Rainey, WILKINSON (Ann), Bradford. June 30; R. Newton, Rhodes, and Hall, WOODS (Susannah Martha Angell). Ryde. June 26; Fardells, Ryde. The Royal Insurance Company Limited have sent us the eighth edition of their neat little Record of Sports. Almost every section of sport is dealt with, and a new feature has been added in the form of a comprehensive series of notable performances and events of aviation. On the 12th inst. the Select Committee of the House of Lorde, of which the Duke of Wellington is chairman, considered the Bill promoted by the Star Life Assurance Society. The objects of the Bill were the incorporation of the society under the name of the Star Assurance Society, provision for the management of its affaire, and the conferring of further powers on the society. The Bill was read a third time in the House of Lords, and has since been read a first time in the House of Commons. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Information intended for publication under the above heading should reach us not later than Thursday morning in each week, as publication is otherwise delayed. Mr. E. W. J. SAVILL, official receiver at Brighton, has been appointed official receiver for the South London District, in succession to Mr. H. LI. Howell, retiring on pension. Mr. THOMAS GOURLAY, official receiver at Newcastle-on-Tyne has been appointed official receiver for the Brighton District. Mr. CHARLES WOOLLETT, official receiver at Dewsbury, has been appointed official receiver at Newcastle. Mr. E. JOHNSON, assistant official receiver at Manchester, has been appointed official receiver for the Dewsbury District. Mr. EDWARD BEAUMONT has been elected a Bencher of Lincoln's. inn, in succession to the late Mr. Henry Edward Pember, K.C. Mr. Beaumont was called in 1870. The Hon. F. XAVIER LEMIEUX has been appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, Canada, in succession to Sir François Langelier, resigned. Mr. CHARLES E. DORION, KC, has been appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Canada, in place of the Hon. F. Xavier Lemieux. LAW SOCIETIES: BERKS, BUCKS, AND OXFORDSHIRE. THE annual general meeting was held at the Great Western Hotel, Reading, on the 24th ult. Present: Mr. F. E. Marshall, president; Mr. E. P. Crowdy, vice-president; and Messrs. W. C. Blandy, Sydney Brain, W. J. Brain, F. J. Churchill, A. J. Clarke, Charles G. Field, C. E. Hewett, F. Quekett Louch, John W. Martin, Frederick W. Martin, R. S. Payne, Warren H. Pitman, B. L. Reynolds, E L. Reynolds, D. H. Witherington, and H. C. Dryland (secretary). The treasurer's statement of the accounts of the society to the 25th March 1911 (which showed a balance in hand of £71 17. 9d. cash and £303 17s. ld. India Three per Cent. Stock) was approved. The president then moved the adoption of the annual report of the society, and the proposition, which was seconded by Mr. John W. Martin, was carried unanimously. In speaking to the proposition, Messrs. F. W. Martin and D. H. Witherington made various suggestions which were referred to the committee for consideration. The secretary reported, in reply to an inquiry, that the question of the provision of increased facilities for stamping documents at Reading. Oxford, and High Wycombe was still under the consideration of the authorities. The secretary then moved, in accordance with notice, that a donation of ten guineas be made to the Solicitors' Benevolent As-ociation out of the funds of this society in the name of Mr. F. E. Marshall. the president of the society. The resolution was seconded by Mr. W. C. Blandy and carried unanimously. It was next proposed by Mr. F E. Marshall, seconded by Mr. John W. Martin, and resolved that Mr. E. P. Crowdy be elected president for the ensuing year. Mr. B. L. Reynolds was then elected vice-president on the proposition of Mr. A. J. Clarke, seconded by Mr. F. Q. Louch. Mr. H. C. Dryland was elected as secretary, proposed by Mr. F. E. Marshall, seconded by Mr. A. J. Clarke, and it was resolved that for this year the offices of secretary and treasurer should again be combined. Messrs. W. C. Blandy, J. Bliss, S. Brain. A. J. Clarke, C. G. Field, F. Q. Louch, F. E. Marshall, J. W. Martin, and B. M. Tyrwhitt, were on the proposition of Mr. E. P. Crowdy, seconded by Mr. C. E. Hewett, duly elected as members of the committee. It was next proposed by Mr. A. J. Clarke, seconded by Mr. F. W. Martin, and resolved nem. con. that, subject, to the power reserved to the president, vice-president, and secretary by art. 18 of the society's articles of association, the next annual general meeting of the society should be held in London on the first Wednesday in May 1912, it being understood that this arrangement was not to constitute a precedent for the abolition of the existing custom of holding the annual general meeting alternately in every of the three counties of Berke, Bucks, and Oxon. Mr. Sydney Brain then moved: "That the County Courts Bill 1911 be approved by this society subject to the recommendations and expressions of opinion contained in the report of the Law Society, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to every member of Parliament representing a constituency in any of the three counties of Berks, Bucks, and Oxon." Mr. Brain in the course of his remarks drew attention to the various provisions of the Bill, and to the suggestions of the Law Society thereon. The resolution was seconded by Mr. John W. Martin and spoken to by Messrs. E. P. Crowdy and C. G. Field and, having been put to the meeting, was carried unanimously. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the president, proposed by the secretary and seconded by Mr. S. Brain. In moving the vote of thanke, the secretary referred to the great interest taken by the president in the work of the society and to his indefatigable services on its behalf during the past year. CORRESPONDENCE. This department being open to free discussion on all Professional topics, the Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. FINANCE (1909-10) Act 1910.-No doubt many of your readers act for mortgagees and are considering whether they should, on behalf of such mortgagees, obtain copies of the provisional valuations made under the above Act, with a view to obtaining an independent valuation of the securities. With this object in mind, my firm wrote to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (Land Values Branch) at Somerset House a letter, a copy of which I inclose. It may be of interest to your readers to note that this letter is apparently taken by the authorities as sufficient claim under sect. 27 (5), as we are now receiving provisional valuations of the properties mentioned therein. R. D. F. [Copy]. "Sir,-Finance (1909-10) Act 1910.-We understand that, as parties interested in the land, mortgagees are entitled to ask to have served on them, and, if they think tit, to object to, the provisional valua tion made under the above Act. We act for mortgagees of the freehold and leasehold properties set out in the schedule to this letter, and we shall be obliged if you will kindly cause to be served on us, as representing the mortgageee, the provisional valuations of these properties. Should you require a more formal application or further particulars, you will doubtless acquaint us.-The Schedule." PROSECUTION OF MILK DEALERS.-Your leaderette in the LAW TIMES of Saturday last sounds a useful note upon the injustice ocossioned to milk dealers in prosecutions under the Food and Drugs Act 1875. There is grave discontent amongst the milk dealers in this district with regard to these prosecutions. They think (as, indeed, also the generality of people think) that magistrates should The not convict except upon the strongest possible evidence. wording of sect. 21 of the Act is unfortunate, because lay justices of the peace so often fail to appreciate its spirit. Again and again they consider the analyst's certificate as conclusive evidence, and its mere production seems to be sufficient in their minds for We inclose a conviction, no matter what may be the defence. cutting from the Yorkshire Herald of the 23rd ult. from which you will see that at the York City Police-court on the 22nd ult, a milk dealer for whom we appeared was fined 102. and costs or selling milk which on the analyst's certificate was said to be of a lower standard than that provided by the Board of Agriculture regulations. In the case under consideration, no proof beyond the certificate of the analyst was given that either the quality of fat had been reduced by skimming or by the addition of ekimmed milk. The defendant himself only bought the milk a few minutes before the inspector purchased a sample from another milk purveyor, and it was deposed that the milk was sold as it had come from the cow, and there was further proof that at the time of the year when the simple was takennamely, the 6th April-the milk was liable to be of a poorer quality than at other times. It seems to be quite clear that there should not have been a conviction, as the only evidence for the prosecution was the analyst's certificate, and it was conclusively proved that the milk was genuine. The consensus of rpinion seems to be that the law requires alteration, and we think that the Act might be usefully amended by providing that it should be compulsory for the analyst to be present at the hearing for cross-examination; that no conviction should take place where it is proved that the milk is sold exactly as it has come from the cow; and that the onus of proof should in every case rest with the prosecution. LUCAS AND WALSTER. York. COUNTY COURT EXPERIENCES.-I should like to confirm your correspondent "A. D. M." On the 25th March I sent papers to the Wandsworth County Court with instructions to issue an ordinary summons, and received the plaint note back on the 3rd April. It is the practice of the clerk who has the conduct of this work to set aside summonses sent to him by post and attend to same at his leisure. If a olerk is sent down to the offices of the court to issue process, he is kept waiting about owing to the dilatory methods of the officials. It is quite time the work of this court was put upon a business footing. R. F. W. With reference to the correspondence in your issue of the 20th ult. respecting the Wandsworth County Court and its "little courtesies" towards solicitore, I may say that my experience has been very similar to that of your other correspondents, and I was under the impression that the new County Court Rules lately published would assist the solicitor who carried on business outside the district of any given County Court, but on closer examination I find that it does not help the solicitor in the slightest degree. I grant that in the majority of courts he is allowed to remit through the post instructions for the issue of summonses, but only by the courtesy of the respective registrars; and I find that Order V., r. 12, applies only where both the plaintiff and solicitor carry on business outside the district. I have addressed a letter on the subject to the secretary of the County Court Rules Committee, House of Lords, with the hope that at no very distant date the rules will again be altered to the solicitors' advantage on this question, and the following is an extract of the letter: My reason for raising this point is on account of the action of the Wandsworth County Court, which persistently refuses to accept instructions through the post from me in certain cases on account of my client carrying on business in Streatham, and on the 25th inst. I received back from the court all the papers I had remitted with fees in two cases for the issue of judgment summonses indorsed 'The plaintiff is carrying on business within the district of this court, and must attend to issue proceedings.' In the first place, the absurdity of euggesting that my client, after instructing me in the matters, should attend the court himself to issue proceedings is grotesque; whereas if I have to send a clerk over to Wandsworth for the purpose, it means taking up practically either the whole morning or the whole afternoon, and the injustice is aggravated by the fact that no costs are allowed. Further, I notice that the rule I have cited applies only where the plaintiff desires to enter a plaint, and presumably does not apply to judgment summonses and executions. Surely this is an oversight and most inconsistent. May I ask you, with great courtesy, for the convenience of myself and brother prac titioners, to have the rules relaxed at an early date, and su prevent the penalising of the large number of solicitors who do not carry on business within the district of all the County Courts, but who act for clients whose business is carried on within the districts respectively? I may say that this point has been a source of serious contention for many years with some of the courts where the respective staffs are mostly inclined to be autocratic and rely strictly upon the letter of the rules." HARASSED SOLICITOR. LEGAL OBITUARY, Mr. HYACINTH PLUNKETT, K.C., the Father of the Irish Bar, died on the 22nd ult. Mr. Plunkett was called to the Irish Bar in Feb. 1853, and among the students who were called with him were the Right Hon. Christopher Palles, who has been Lord Chief Baron of Ireland since 1874, and the late Right Hon. Sir Frederick Darley, G.C M.G., who, having practised for some years at the Irish Bar, emigrated to New South Wales, where he had a great legal and Parliamentary career, and filled for many years the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Plunkett always had a moderate practice at the Bar, and was regarded as a very sound and careful lawyer. For many years be discharged with the highest efficiency the duties of revising barrister. He was very much sought after in social circles owing to his refinement of manners, cld-world courtesy, and great powers as a raconteur. His memory, which was at once vivid and ietentive, enabled him without apparent effort to invest with an absolute actuality circumstances of half a century ago. Although his apprehension was quick and his estimate of character seldom mistaken, his great kindness of heart prevented his betrayal into the use of any uncharitable or ungenerous expression. He was enthusiastic in his congratulations of the friends who obtained preferment, in whose joy he fully shared, and bore without repining the experience that others had surpassed him in the struggle of a competitive profession. He took silk only in last December, which was conferred on him, amid universal congratulations, by Sir Samuel Walker, the Irish Lo.d Chancellor, who was himself called to the Bar two years after the call of Mr. Plunkett, and thus made a record in conferring silk gowns on two gentlemen who were at the time Fathers' of the Bar. In his first tenure of the Lord Chancellorship, Sir Samuel Walker gave a silk gown to Mr. Edmund Meares Kelly, then Father of the Irish Bar, to which he had been called before the Lord Chancellor was born. Mr. Plunkett lived well into the eighties, and the closing months of his life were brightened by public recognitions. So recently as December last he went to Paris as the accredited representative of the Irish Bar to take part in the festivities by which the centenary of the re-establishment of the French Bar was commemorated. Mr. Plunkett, who was the first Roman Catholic to fill the honourable position of Father of the Irish Bar, was a gentleman of high—indeed, of historic— antecedents. He was a scion of the house of Plunkett, whose head is the Earl of Fingall, the holder of one of the most ancient Irish peerages, and in whose line Mr. Plunkett was in succession. Three gentlemen, Fathers of the Irish Bar in the last century, attained great eminence-the Right Hon. James FitzGerald, who lived into the nineties, was dismissed from the great office of Prime Serjeant at the time of the Union, and had a brilliant career first in the Irish and subsequently in the British House of Commons; Mr. Robert Holmes, the recognised leader of the Irish Bar, who was offered the Solicitor-Generalship, but would not accept any favour from the Government, even a silk gownbe being a brother-in-law of Robert Emmet, the leader of the insurrec, tion of 1803; and Mr. Thomas De Moleyns, Q C., who died in his ninety-fourth year in 1900, and had as a midshipman served in the Bellerophon when Napoleon was a prisoner of war on board that vessel. Mr. Plunkett's record is invested with no dramatic or sensational incident, and he was not known to fame, but he will live in the hearts and the affections of his brethren at the Bar as a splendid specimen of the truest and best type of the honourable, high-minded, chivalrous Irish gentleman. Mr. CHARLES WALLWYN RADCLIFFE COOKE, of Hellens, Much Marcle, Hereford, died on the 26th ult. at Malvern, aged seventy. Mr. Radcliffe Cooke was a son of the late Mr. Robert Duffield Cooke, of Hellens, and Mary Anne, daughter of Mr. Edward Wallwyn, Hellens. He was educated privately and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was exhibitioner, scholar, and prizeman (Le Bas and Barney prizes, the latter twice). He was called by Lincoln's-inn in 1872 and joined the Oxford Circuit. Mr. Radcliffe Cooke. fought Newington West in the Conservative interest in 1885, and represented the division until 1892. In 1893, when Mr. W. H. Grenfell, member for Hereford City, accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, he stood against Sir Joseph Pulley, and a Radioal majority of 127 was turned into a Conservative majority of forty-four. He represented the constituency until the General Election of 1900, when he retired from Parliamentary life. As an agriculturist Mr. Radcliffe Cooke won for himself a place of distinction. He took an active part in local government, and was a member of the Herefordshire County Council, a justice of the peace, and a deputy.lieutenant. He was one of the founders of the Constitutional Union, and in the spare moments of an active life wrote several books of interest, including Thoughts on Men and Things and Four Years in Parliament with Hard Labour, as well as a treatise on the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875, and a work on cider. He married in 1876 the younger daughter of the Rev. J. H. Broome, vicar of Houghton, Norfolk. Mr. HERBERT JOHN ALLCROFT, barrister-at-law, of Stokesay Court, Onibury, died at his Shropshire residence on the 26th ult, aged fortyfive. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. John Derby Allcroft, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital and sometime M.P. for the city of Worcester, by his second marriage with Mary Jewell, eldest daughter of Mr. John Blundell, of Timsbury Manor, Hants. He was educated at Harrow and was called by the Inner Temple in 1890. In 1893, on the death of his father, he inherited the extensive estate near Craven Arms, which his father had acquired by private purchase and which formerly belonged to the Earls of Craven. He was a careful and diligent land!o.d spending most of each year on the property. He married Margaret, only daughter of the late General Sir William Russell, C. B, and leaves a son and a daughter. At Sir WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT, barrister-at-law, poet and dramatic author, died suddenly on Monday of a heart affection while bathing at his home at Harrow Weald. Sir William Gilbert was born at 17, Southampton-street, Strand, on the 18th Nov. 1836. On his mother's side he was Scotch; his father was descended from one of the Devon Gilberts, who married a sister of Sir Walter Raleigh. the age of seven he went to school at Boulogne; from ten to thirteen he was a pupil at the Western Grammar School, Brompton, and from thirteen to sixteen at the Great Ealing School, where he took prizes in English, Greek, and Latin verse, spent much time in drawing, though without lessons, and wrote a number of plays for performance by his schoolfellows, painting his own scenery and taking a part himself. He took his B.A. degree at London, and was called by the Inner Temple in 1863 and joined the Northern Circuit. His dramatic work is too well known to require mentioning here. He married Lucy Agnes, daughter of Captain Turner, who survives him. At the inquest on Wednesday it transpired that Sir William Gilbert was attempting to assist a young girl, who was out of her depth, when the heart failure occurred. The coroner said, "I think it is a very honourable end to a great and distinguished career." THE COURTS AND COURT PAPERS. CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.-SUMMER ASSIZES. THE following judges will remain in town: The Lord Chief Justice of England, Darling, J., A. T. Lawrence, J., and Hamilton, J., during the whole of the circuits; the other judges till their respective commission days. Notice. In cases where no date in parentheses is appended, both civil and criminal business must be ready to be taken on the first working day; in other cases the date appended indicates the day before which civil business will not be taken. In the case of circuit towns to which two judges go there will be no alteration in the old practice. NORTH-EASTERN (GRANTHAM and SCRUTTON, JJ.). THERE will be no sitting in court during the Whitsun Vacation. During the Whitsun Vacation, all applications "which may require to be immediately or promptly heard," are to be made to the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans. The Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans will act as Vacation judge from Saturday, the 3rd June, to Monday, the 12th June, both days inclusive. His Lordship will sit for King's Bench Chamber Business in his Private Room, No. 644, on Thursday, the 8th June, at 10.30. On other days within the above period, applications in urgent matters may be made to his Lordship by post or, if necessary, personally. In the case of applications to the judge by post the brief of counsel should be sent addressed to the judge by post, prepaid, accompanied by office copies of the affidavits in support of the application, and also by a minute, on a separate sheet of paper, signed by counsel, of the order he may consider the applicant entitled to, and also an envelope, sufficiently stamped, capable of receiving the papers, addressed as follows: "Chancery Official Letter: To the Registrar in Vacation, Chancery Registrars' Chambers, Royal Courts of Justice, London, W.C." On applications for injunctions, in addition to the above, a copy of the writ and a certificate of writ issued must also be sent. The papers sent to the judge will be returned to the registrar. The address of the Vacation judge can be obtained on application at the Chancery Registrars' Chambers, Room 136, Royal Courts of Justice. Chancery Registrars' Chambers, Royal Courts of Justice, 2nd June 1911. THE GAZETTES. Bankrupts. THE BANKRUPACTCY TS 1883 AND 1890. RECEIVING ORDERS. To surrender at the High Court of Justice, in Bankruptcy. BARNETT, MORRIS, Brondesbury-villas, Kilburn, property doaler. May 23. COLYER, FRANK, Brighton, grocer. Ct. Brighton. May 24. GEORGE DAVID, Leighton Buzzard, builder. CLAY, FREDERICK LAING, late Hexham, mercantile clerk. Ct. Newcastleupon-Tyne. May 23. DAVIS, OWEN, Great Grimsby, skipper. Ct. Great Grimsby. May 23. GREEN, HARRY RICHES, Wotton-under-Edge, druggist. Ct. Gloucester. HILL, THOMAS, Wolverhampton, boot repairer. May 23. JONES, HUGH, Bethel, builder. Ct. Bangor May 22. JONES, JOHN LUCIUS, Blackwood, grocer. Ct. Tredegar. May 24. LILLEY, GEORGE EDWARD, Wellingborough, shoeing smith. Ct. Northampton. May 23. MAKIN, WILLIAM (trading as the Triumph Herbal Brewery), Kingston- MELTON, ARTHUR BARNARD, East Dereham, farmer. Ct. Norwich. MILLER, FREDERICK GEORGE SEYMOUR, Castle Cary, innkeeper. Ct. Yeovil. May 22. OSBORNE, HERBERT CHARLIE (trading as C. Roberts and Co.), Leicester, debt collector. Ct. Leicester. May 22. PUGH, JABEZ, Shrewsbury, builder. Ct. Shrewsbury. May 24. SANDERS, JAMES FREDERICK, Burton-on-Trent, pork butcher. Ct. Burtonon-Trent. May 23. SHELTON, JAMES MARTIN, Herne Bay, builder. Ct. Canterbury. May 24. SPINDLER, JACOB, Leiston, fishmonger. Ct. Ipswich. May 23. SHAKESPEARE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Brierley Hill, late grocer. bridge. May 23. Ct. Stour SMITH, ROBERT LEWIS WILLIAM (trading as William Smith), Riccall, blacksmith. Ct. York. May 23. VOLLAM, EDWARD JAMES, Little Munden, nurseryman. Ct. Hertford. WOOFF, THOMAS, Settle, fruiterer. Ct. Bradford. May 24. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, May 23. CARLYLE, FRANCIS JOHN, Sunderland, solicitor. Ct. Sunderland. May 19. ADJUDICATIONS. GAZETTE, MAY 26. ASHWELL, ARTHUR THOMAS, Queen Anne's-gate, Westminster, solicitor. Ct. High Court. May 23. AINLEY, JONAS HIRST FREDERICK SHAW, Weybridge, dental assistant. Ct. Kingston, Surrey. May 24. ADAMS, GEORGE HENRY (trading as G. H. Adams and Co.), Bournemouth, auctioneer. Ct. Poole. May 22. BATTY, JOSHUA (late trading as J. Batty and Son), Kingston-upon-Hull, Ct. CUNDY, BERTIE, Ruckholt-rd, Leyton, rate collector. Ct. High Court. May 23. COLYER, FRANK, Brighton, grocer. Ct. Brighton. May 24. CARRICK, MARY HELENA JANE, Eltham, confectioner Ct. Greenwich. May 22. CLAY, FREDERICK LAING, late Hexham, mercantile clerk. Ct. Newcastleupon-Tyne. May 23. DAISH, JOHN ROWAN LINDSAY (late trading as Pardy Brothers), late May 20. EGGLESTON, HENRY, Great Grimsby, late grocer. Ct. Great Grimsby. May 23. FURSE, ALBERT DONALD, Boundary-la, Walworth, engineer. Ct. High Court. May 23. GARD, WILLIAM, Highbury-pk, Highbury, greengrocer. Ct. High Court. GILLMAN, FRANK BENNETT MARK (described in the receiving order as May 24. HILL, THOMAS, Wolverhampton, boot repairer. May 23. Ct. Ct. Gloucester. Wolverhampton. JONES, HUGH, Bethel, builder. Ct. Bangor. May 22. JONES, JOHN LUCIUS, Blackwood, grocer. Ct. Tredegar. KAHN, LEWIS, Grove-rd, Bow, horse-hair manufacturer. May 22. LILLEY, GEORGE EDWARD, Wellingborough, shoeing smith. ampton. May 23. MAKIN, WILLIAM (trading as the Triumph Herbal Brewery), Kingston- OSBORNE, HERBERT CHARLIE (trading as C. Roberts and Co.), Leicester, debt collector. Ct. Leicester. May 22. PUGH, JABEZ, Shrewsbury, builder. Ct. Shrewsbury. May 24. READ, GEORGE NAPIER, Sunderland, ironmonger. Ct. Sunderland. May 24. SANDERS, JAMES FREDERICK, Burton-on-Trent, pork butcher. Ct. Burton- SLAWTHER, GEORGE MEGGESON (late trading as the United Wholesale Cash SELBY, RICHARD PICKERING, Lenton, late licensed victualler. Ct. Notting. ham. May 23. SHAKESPEARE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Brierley Hill, late grocer. Ct. Stourbridge. May 23. SMITH, ROBERT LEWIS WILLIAM (trading as William Smith), Riccall, blacksmith. Ct. York. May 23. TAYLOR, ARTHUR, Mortimer, late licensed victualler. Ct. Reading. WILLIAMS, GWILYM, late Buckingham. Ct. Banbury. May 22. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, May 9. EURBRIDGE, PERCY FRANK, Paignton, late proprietor of skating rink. Ct. Plymouth and East Stonehouse. May 6. GAZETTE, MAY 30. To surrender at the High Court of Justice, in Bankruptcy. CCOPER, THOMAS, South-pl, Finsbury, director of public companies. May 2. CRADDOCK, WILLIAM JOHN, Caledonian-rd, Islington, fishmonger. May 25. GIBBS, LAUNCELOT D. L., late Villeneuve, aviator. May 26. HEATHCOTE, ARTHUR SAMUEL UNWIN, Maldon, late underwriter. May 26. MARTIN, FRANCIS ROXBURGH (trading as Westerton's Library), Knightsbridge, librarian. May 26. SICHEL AND Co., ERNEST, Bread-st, merchants. May 30. SINGER, M. (late trading as Singer and Co.), late Addle-st, merchant. May 25. TEBBIT, HERBERT WILLIAM (trading as Tebbit and Co.), West End-la. West Hampstead. May 25. To surrender at their respective District Courts. BIGG, WILLIAM CHARLES, Battersea Park Ct. Wandsworth. May 25. BRADSHAW, ALBERT VICTOR, Marple, commercial clerk. Ct. Stockport. May 26. BRADBURY, MATTHEW JAMES, Sheffield, grocer. Ct. Sheffield. May 26. BELL, ALBERT EDWARD, Sheffield, licensed victualler. Ct. Sheffield. May 25. BLANCHARD, JAMES, Weybridge. Ct. Kingston, Surrey. May 18. BURROWS, GEORGE. Wimbledon, inspector of agents. Ct. Kingston, Surrey. May 25. BUXTON, JAMES, Lowestoft, smack owner. Ct Great Yarmouth. May 25. DYKES, ROBERT, Acton, contractor. Ct. Brentford. May 25. EVANS, HARRY ERNEST, Oakengates, fishmonger. Ct. Shrewsbury. May 25. HUTCHINSON, W. (male), Wolverton, late tobacconist. Ct. Newport and Ryde. May 24. HOCKNEY, ALFRED HUNTER, Great Grimsby, cabinet maker. Ct. Great Grimsby. May 26. HOUGH, WILLIAM May 25. ANDREW, Rugby, hay merchant. Ct. Coventry. HUGHES, DOROTHY, Llanfairfechan, publican, widow. Ct. Bangor. May 26. JANE, ALBERT AMOS, Boston, draper. Ct. Boston. May 26. KNOCK, FRANK ALFRED NORMAN, Muswell Hill, traveller. Ct. Edmonton. May 26. Moss. WILLIAM ERNEST, Long Eaton, joiner. Ct. Derby and Long Eaton. May 26. MASON, ARTHUR, Oakham, drug stores proprietor. Ct. Leicester. May 27. MILLER, WILLIAM JOHN, Wantage, grocer. Ct. Oxford. May 26 PATCHELL, HENRY ARTHUR, Budleigh Salterton, coal merchant. Ct. Exeter. May 26. ROBERTS, RICHARD, Eaglescliffe, commission agent. Ct. Stockton-onTees. May 25. TAYLOR, ROBERT HENRY, Penrhiwceiber, ironmonger. Ct. Abordare and TOLLETH, JAMES TODD, Hebden Bridge, brushmaker. Ct. Burnley. May 26. VICKERS, ARTHUR, Wednesfield, grocer. Ct. Wolverhampton. 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THE draft of the new rules which are to come into operation on the 1st Aug. next has been published (see post, p. 136). With regard to originating summonses, additions are made to Order VI., and a concurrent originating summons may be issued in the same manner mutatis mutandis as a concurrent writ of summons. Under an additional rule to Order XVI., thirdparty procedure is extended to any person served with a thirdparty notice by a defendant or by a third party, if such person so served claims to be entitled to contribution or indemnity over against any person not a party to the action. Three new investments-namely, the guaranteed stocks issued under the statutes 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48; 3 Edw. 7, c. 37; and 9 Edw. 7, c. 42-are added to the list in which cash under the control of or subject to the order of the court may be invested; and an additional rule to Order L., with reference to the security to be given by a receiver, provides that where the amount of such security does not exceed £500 such security may be given by an undertaking in the form specified in an appendix. In addition, a number of new rules are made as to references in Admiralty actions, and also as to the practice before the registrars of the Chancery Division. On Saturday last the Times published an article from one of its correspondents as to the congestion of business in the High Court of Bengal. Although the state of affairs is far more serious than that which obtained in this country a year or so ago our contemporary stating that no fewer than 6000 special appeals and 2000 regular appeals were awaiting disposal, and that some of the cases had been on the files since 1908-the causes which have contributed to this position are somewhat similar. Having regard to the work to be done, the Bench seems undermanned, additional work |