AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3194, 23 September 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

September 23

At the Supreme Court yesterday there was an application made in a case that was of considerable interest, owing partly to the fact that the proceedings related to an estate of the value of £143,000, and also because the parties to tbe cause were 60 well-known aa notabilities of olden times in Auckland. testator of the estate was the late Captain Read, of Poverty Bay, whose figure was once as familiar in Queen-street as that of the town cluck, and the other party was the late J. S. Macfarlane, represented in the cause by his widow (Mrs M. A. Macfarlane) as executrix and administratrix of bis estate. The late J. S. Macfarlane, as trustee under Captain Reid's will, had performed certain important duties and had been at great expense and trouble in realising portions of tbe estate, amounting, it was said, to £60,000, upon which the executrix of his (Macfarlane's) estate claimed commission. There was a full bar, Mr E. Hesketh representing the petitioner, and Mr Coleman appearing in person as trustee, Mr A. E. Whitaker and Mr T. Cotter appearing for the residuary legatee and for Mr J. E. Clarke, who is the other trustee. The application was postponed to enable bis Honor to consider certain questions ot technical practice.