IN RE ROBERT CARTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 291, 9 December 1867, Page 2

IN RE ROBERT CARTER.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening JMail. Sir — Having returned from the country last evening, I by chance saw in the Examiner a few days ago a letter signed 'Pick-and-Shovel,' seeking information relative to the above estate. If he is correct in saying that the trustee has realised on the property weeks ago, surely there 'can be no reasonable ground for the trustee neglecting to pay the few pounds of wages due by the estate; several of the men are talking loudly about summoning; they appear so thoi oughly sick and dissatisfied with the whole affair that they are determined to have it settled in some way, ' and that pretty quick.' Labor in Nelson seems children's play compared with the trouble and annoyance that men are subject to before getting their hard-earned money. It is not unfrequently the case in Nelson that a man's bill for tucker, whilst waiting for his money, will far exceed the amount of wages due to him. I am sure that every right-thinking man will agree with me in saying that this state of afiairs is deplorable, for it is not alone the laboring man who suffers by this dilly-dallying system, but the tradespeople must suffer likewise ; for it is quite evident that where a workingman can earn but two or three pounds a week, and is compelled to wait three weeks or perhaps a month for his money, that other parties must lose as well as he. Can you inform the public whether the Inspector in Bankruptcy has got a say relative to the above estate, or is the whole affair left in the hands of the trustee? Yours, &c, Stoke. Nelson, December 9, 1867. [By referring to the advertising columns of our Saturday's issue it will be seen that all claims on 'this estate must be sent in by the 14th instant.]