Supreme Court Library.

I was enabled to vist this library through the kindness of my friend, Mr. Edwin G. Jellicoe, barrister-at-law, of Wellington. It is contained in a small room in the Supreme Court building, and has, I suppose, about 2,100 volumes of strictly legal works, reports, and text books. The management of the library is in the hands of the Council of the Wellington District Law Society. It is open to all members of the legal profession, practising in the Wellington Judicial District, who have paid their fees for the current year. Also to managing and articled clerks, on their receiving permission from the Council of the Law Society. No books are allowed to be taken beyond the precincts of the court, and "no books are to have the pages turned down, or to be page 24 dog's eared, marked with pencil, ink or otherwise, or in any way defaced, torn or injured, or left lying open when done with." Breach of any of the rules regulating the library, renders the persons committing such breach liable to a fine of £2 2s., which can be exacted by the Council of the Law Society.

A printed catalogue of this library was issued in 1872 (8vo. pp. 38), and a more recent edition in 1882 (8vo. pp. 68). This last is an interesting little brochure, neatly printed, and containing:—Rules of the library, explanation of abbreviations of the reports, general alphabetical catalogue under authors' names; catalogue of the law reports under the different courts, giving the dates covered by the various series, &c.; a table of regnal years, and an index of subjects with names of authors who have written on any subject. The library appears to be much used, but needs space and an increased expenditure to make it thoroughly adequate to the wants of the profession.