THE M'INTYRE CASE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 April 1907, Page 1

THE M'INTYRE CASE

A MEETING OF CREDITORS AT CHRISTCHURCH. . Wednesday's "Lyttelton Times" has the following report* of'the meeting of creditors of Mr D. ! C. Mclntyre/'brieflyreferred to in a telegraphed message: A meeting of creditors of Mr D. C. M'lntyre, the late Superintendent of Awards at the Exhibition, who has left the colony hurriedly, and against whom it is alleged there are icertain irregularities in the accounts which have induced the Government to decide to "bring him back- to the colony, was 'held yesterday in Mr W. Hobati's office. 4 .At the advertised time there were seven creditors present, and Mr D. Stranaghan was voted to the chair. Mr Stranaghan stated -that the meeting had been co*nvene-d_for..the. purpose of discussing the position. Aef ore the Government liad decided:- to take action, and all that was left for it to do, he thought, was to pass a resolution expressing pleasure at the, action bf the Government in- deciding to undertake the extradition of. MryM'lntyre. A resolution in these terms had been drafted,, and he had muck' pleasure in drafting it. The Chairman : then read the motion : "That thiif meeting of creditors of D. C. desires to convey to the Hon.siW. HalUlones, ActingPremier., and his? colleagues,, its' appreciation of the prompt step^. tWjen m the matter, which- l*Will eventuate in the said debtolT.being brought^- back to the colony to face hi^ 'creditors." The resolution also suggeste d that such a meeting Would be particularly pleasurabs to thoso from whonJJ.Mr M'lntyre is alleged to fcave obtained money improperly. C" * ,- *» A cre3itdr r present topk exception to this clause ifetho motidii^" stating that it meant a pre-judging of; a.- man which might ultimately be lib|Hous, and at his suggestion the motioit was amended to the form a* quoted. ''-i'The motion was sectored by Mr John Cock. *•_• At this stage two other, creditors arrived in the persons of Mr W. F. Eaton, managing director of the Colonial and Foreign Agency' Company, ond Mr A. Hopkins, a Christchurch estate agent. After reading the motion, Mr Hopkins protested against its passage. "I think," he said, "tbat w.e should pass a vote of censure oh the Government, instead of one of appreciation. It will cost the colony £250 to bring this man back, and he should never have been allowed to go away.'' Mr Stranaghan explained that tha Government had apparently been powerless to prevent the departure of Mr M'lntyre. There had been nothing sufficiently disclosed to swear out a warrant on or before the departure ot tho Turakina. Mr Eaton : I believe the Government had cognisance of it all along, Mr Hopkins : Its action was certainly very tardy. If the statements appearing in the newspapers are to bebelieved, the police actually visited the man on the ooat. Mr Eaton : I can prove that if the books of the Exhibition had Been properly kept thisi thing wOuld never hava happened. The man ought never to have been allowed to got. away. Mr Hoban suggested- .the .addition of a clause to the motion expressing regret that action had not been taken earlier. Mr Hopkins thought that it would ba better to leave the whole business alone for a little while. There had been something very slipshod -in the whole proceedings. Mr Eaton, when asked as to his standing at the meeting, said : My grievance is with reference to certain space that I applied' for',. I, paid certain mor neys to Mr M'lntyre which have not been accounted for, and I'm going to be sued. At lea*st,- I -suppose so, for I am getting constant demands for a settlement. Mr Stranaghan : But didn't' you get get a receipt! Mr Eaton: Yes, I have M'lntyre's receipt. But I ***yas put- in the position that as I could get no satisfaction I did not complete my application for space. . • Mr Hopkins: Well, I represent -peo-« pie who are in very heavily for hundreds 311U hundreds of pounds, and if you pass that motion yon will be sorry for it in a few days. I say now, openly — and I don't care, if it is communicated to the newspapers — that before many weeks are over there will be ai strong and bitter feeling against the Government among the people of Canterbury owing to its lax administration of the Exhibition.* The money ib would cost to bring M'lntyre back from the round trip might have been saved had the Government acted decently ia the first instance. If any ordinary person had c'Snducte"d his business upon the same lines as the Government has run the Exhibition*, and had got into trouble, he would* have been strongly reprimanded by the Courts. Mr Stranaghan : The Government was most anxious to stop him at Wellington if it had had .anything to go on. Mr Eaton : The Government's wholo administration of the Exhibition has been most disgraceful. At this stage a creditor demanded to know who had' called, the meeting, and Mr Stranaghan admitted that he. acting for himself and. a . number of other creditors, - had convened it. At that time there \>?as no public knowledge that the Gi^js'rnment was moving in the matter, but now- -tbat it was ib might be as' well, as' was suggested by several creditors, to adjourn tha meting. J •*_ . Mr Hoban .suggested 'that it should be adjourned sine die. • and .this was unanimously agreed tojthe understanding being that if a futther meeting should ba deemed necessaiy at any time Mr Stranaghan should convene It at his discretion.

JW s? 3K i" i if .Jj. «i ; *«■» >. r? ! .^r<i3 M. Gaston Havel describes an* in* leresting method of producing arti-< fieially variously figured structures v*fhich are strongly 'suggestive ofl lunar formation*.-. IJlacing a quan-* tity of wax in a .copped vessel heat-*! Ed by a, gas flame^' as-^on os Hat mass'comaiißD^^jJ^T-jfidtien'' a met alt lie ro>4' nj^iiigCened-* i?.*with* water is plunged.- into tiie mass^ftiri qviicklyi •wi-lbdra.-wn', taking*- caire to -close thei orifice caused byvthe insertion . ofi the* rod. After' a few (seconds tho gas is turned, oh stronger, -ho .as toheat the lo***er part7.b£ 'ihe wax,: and a swelling is «ccii formiiiH. oiv tho surface o£ the* -niax.- '-ibis increases, and at a certain stage in its development bursts n?i<nU '.- iis upper part. A jet of steam escapes, ****- and the swelling subsides iii tha form of a circular ridge with verti-r. cal walls. By ntbis the ac;.ian of th*** steam insid-a tihe mass has been* rer.. lieved for a time, but after a shorti o * 7 interval a similar series of pheno-»- ' niena will be repeated; if the new,. - swelling happens to come up insida the former, there will be formed a.-. ■'•-' central cone very strifciiißly similar.. , to those so characteristic of trua - lunar formations. — 'Knowledge.'