MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1879, Page 3

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

At a meeting of the creditor* of John Mc.'ntosh. late hoteikeeper, of Wellington, > belt yesterday afternoon, there was a large attendance ot creditors, and Mr. Berry, the 6 trustee, occupied the chair. Mr. Ollivier was present on behalf of the debtor, and Mr. Edwards appeared for Mr J. R. >athan and a number of otlur creditor?. Mr. Ollivier applied tor the discharge of the bankrupt. The Chairman read the ovidence of Mr and Mrs. Mclntoeh, and the Manager < f the Bank of ( Australia, which had been taken on oMh at I previous meetings This evidence was to the 1 effect that in February last year the bankrupt ' ■old Ills interest in the Melbourne Hotel to 1 Mr. J. «. Ow«n for £2,500, but he could only account for £500 of the amount. He did « sot know how be had spent if, but it) had all gone. His wit* had a private ac-, ' count of her own at the SaviDgs Bank, into which she paid the grfatrr part of her •avings. Shortly before the bankrupt filed his schedule, his wife purchased a brig called the ( Jane for £1000, of which amount he found £100. The bankrupt appeared to have been in difficulties before he filed, for Mr. J. E. Nathan was in the habit of sending his clerk to the hotel every morning for the previous, - day's takings. Bankrupt had sworn positively' that be had never given his wife any of the -money received from Mr. Owen, but Mr. Sawer», the manager of the Bank of Austra- - . lasia, stated that a cheque for £000 drawn by J. N. Owen had been paid into Mrs. M'lntosh's private account and drawn out again by her own cheque. Mr Edwards— Mr. M'lutosh received £2500 a little over a year ago and ran - only account tor £500 of it. The Chairman—' P Just so. He says he cannot remember to whom he paid the remainder of the* money. Mr. Wylie— What amount did Mr M 'ln tosh A . hand over to you, Mr Chairman? The Chair- C ram -A bill fur £500. That has been dlsiri- \ bated in a dividend of 2* 9d in the £ Mr. Wylie— I know several who have not got the {] amounts due to them as dividends The i hairman — Perhaps they- have never applied a for the money. Mr. Kd wards — I am 'sur- - \ prised to hear the bankrupt applying to , the creditors ior his discharge alter having " given evidence of such an unsatisfactory nature. Mr. Ollivier — As there is likely to be gome- opposition, I beg to withdraw my* application. Mr. L. L. Harris moved, and Mr J. C E. Nathan seconded, " That the bankrupt's discharge be suspended for three years " Mr. v Dimant submitted that the motion should not be put, inasmuch as that the Judge was the only person who could suspend a bankrupt's certificate. He would move, as an* amend* ment, " That the application of the bankrupt 8 ior his .discharge be granted." The Chairman —He has withdrawn his application, and there- 1 fore your amendment is informal Mr. Dimant —Well, all I on say is that 1 don't think ih« , opposition to the bankrupt's discharge should come from Mr. Nathan; he has made quite •noogh money out of Mr. M'lntoeb. Mr. f .Harris' motion was then carried, the only dissentients being Mr. Dimant and Mr. Wylie .flJhis concluded the business. i —.' 1