IN BANKRUPTCY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3123, 20 July 1867, Page 5

IN BANKRUPTCY.

\ The Court sat at noon. PUKGINa OF CONTJJMPT IN RE ANN PBICB. ' Mra. Ana Price, an elderly woman of respectable appearance, who in the month of February last was committed to gaol for contempt of Court in not answering a question put to her relative to the disposal of a sum of 4900 (being the proceeds of the sale of property belonging to her son R. Taylor), now appeared in Court to purge hersslf of her contempt and be discharged. Mr. Brookfield said, if his recollection served him correctly, Mrs. Price was committed to gaol on the 20th February last for contempt of Court in refusing to disclose what had become of the sum of £900 received from the sale of property belonging to her son, R. Taylor. She was now here to purge herself of that contempt by answering the questions put to her. Mrs. Price, being put into the box and sworn, deposed, in answer to Mr. Brookfield, that between £700 and £800 of this sum of £900 she had lent to her son, and he gave her a promissory note for £750 as security. The note now produced is the same. (The note, which was drawn by R. Taylor in favour of Mrs. Price, and promised to pay the sum of £750 on the 1st January, 1872, was here ordered to be delivered up to Mr. Vernon,) The note was given about the time of the trial. Her son has not repaid the money. He is not in Auckland now. He was at Hokitika three months ago. Witness did not supply the £900 to buy the property with. Cannot say what her son did with the money. Don't know that he gave any of it to Upham. He took it away, and did not remit it back again, to the best of witness's knowledge. Witness has no other property. Has no interest on the property now. It has been sold under mortgage. Mr. Brookfield said he should not oppose Mrs. Price's discharge from custody, she having now purged herself of contempt; but perhaps it would be advisable for her to be ordered to appear at a future n time. Mrs. Price said she hoped his Honor would grant her protection. His Honor said he should order her to be discharged, with protection, and to appear on the 25th September. Mr. Brookfield said the gaoler informed him that Mrs. Price had been taken in execution under a ca. sa,, but Mr. Yernon would consent to her discharge. His Honor granted an order of discharge by consent, and Mrs. Price was accordingly absolutely discharged from custody, and the lurther hearing of the case fixed for the 25th September.