Bankruptcy Proceedings.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 2

Bankruptcy Proceedings.

|Br Txlxobaph. [united fbess association.] Oheistchubch, Ist May. A meeting of creditors of Josiah White, a debtor, who was arrested on tho Melbourne steamer at the Bluff, was held to-day. The statement showed liabilities .£220, assets £98. Mrs. White stated she had .£3OO out of her former husband's estate when she married White, to whom she advanced it all. Some of it was repaid. She had about £200 now. An offer by the bankrupt's friends to pay the creditors in full if they abandoned the proceedings against him was declined. WkßTpout, Ist May. In the District Court to-day the action Matthews v. Hodgson, Deputy-Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, for a detenue of goods, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The Court has closed its sitting. The examination of T. Lawrie, a bankrupt, is postponed to the next sittings. Auckland, Ist May. D. F. Evans, an auctioneer, who recently became bankrupt, has left suddenly for Fiji without consulting his creditors on the subject, but in a letter to the Official Assignee he stated that ho had met with so many disappointments that he was thoroughly disheartened, and as his remorse was added to by the fact that his family was scantily proded for, a friend having given him a passage to the islands he had gone there, hoping to return by the end of May in better circumstanoes.