WELLINGTON NOTES.
JL ~ October 23. At the sitting ojplne Bankruptcy Court this morning, the Cirief Justice spoke very straight in the case" of a young man named Charles Milward, a painter by trade, who came up for his His>Honbttr remarked that tbe dl»iW's liabilities only amounted to £25 or £2*S and he marvelled that a young mc a id fj- rtebtor's position, earning as he now \?&' ±)3 583 "pe* week, should have the xmpudc-nce to apply for his discharge. He declined to grant the discharge, and ordered $hs payment of the debts in f uIL A batch of twenty-five, of the local unemployed is to be provided with work making roads fo&n, Evans Bay to the forts at the" heads. ~-AU the men have families to support> and are residents of Wellington. It was originally intended, I understand, to make the road by prison labcur.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8621, 24 October 1893, Page 5
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