AN OLD-STANDING BANKRUPTCY.
APPLICATION OF DISCHAEGE REFUSED. FBI TELEGRAFII — PBESB ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, This Day. In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, Cornelius Johns, auctioneer, applied for an order of discharge. Johns was adjudged bankrupt on creditors' petition some fifteen years ago. Debtor now pleaded that he had been unable to pay his creditors anything meanwhile. Mr. Justice Williams said that if the bankrupt had done without a discharge so long, he could do without it for the rest ot his career. It appeared, from a report of the Lands Court, that if the bankrupt had been caught under a warrant for his arrest issued in 1893, he would probably have been convicted under the penal clauses of the Act and sentenced to hard labour. Before bolting to San Francisco, bankrupt had made an arrangement a-bout his goods that entailed heavy costs upon the estate.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 8
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142AN OLD-STANDING BANKRUPTCY. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 8
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