MR. ANGELO FORREST AND HIS CREDITORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6824, 1 October 1883, Page 5

MR. ANGELO FORREST AND HIS CREDITORS.

The Tarauaki Herald gives a report extending to three columns, oi meeting of Mr. Aneelo % Forrest with his creditors, We quote some portions :— The debtor was sworn and examined as follows :—lt is impossible to otate the amount of my takings in New Plymouth, as did not keep any books. My terms were payment in advancs. Mr. Corkill: Have you no idea of how much you earned ? Can you not state from memory an approximate amount ? The Debtor : No, I cannot do that. Mr. Corkill: How has the money you received been expended ? The Debtor : Mainly for my wife and three children and myself to live. After some further examination, Mr. Richmond, who appeared for the debtor, explained that Mr. Forrest thought that one of i his profession was above keeping such sublunary matters as accounts. Debtor : I presume it is not expected that a man of my ability is coming here to starve ? i _ Chorus of Voices : You have not starved since you came (laughter). Mr. Veale : As fur as I can see the bakers', grocers', butchers', and other tradesmen's bills have not been paid. Now, what has become of the money ? Mr. Forrest: Afler a man advertises as I have done he expects to receive support, but I have not received it (laughter). Mr. Corkill: We know that £200 is not a large income for a man living as Mr, Forrest has lived, audependiog freely, but I wish to ask him whether it is a fact that when Mrs. Forrest required a nurso he went to the unnecessary expense of importing one from Wellington, which would entail a large extra cost? , Debtor : Yes; I brought one from Wellington. The Chairman : Do yon think you had sufficient money to warrant you in going to that expense ? Debtor : It is true I brought her here and paid her passage. * Mr. Corkill: AndHhat at a time when he was practicatly insolvent. The debtor said he was asked to take a business in Auckland to oblige a friend—at least one whom he thought was a friend. He did not see his way to do it at first, but he was at last persuaded into it, and he gave a bill of sale for.£l6oo,.and took over the business. He was promised £3 a-week out of the business, and, instead of receiving the £3, he paj[d it into the business to paj off the capital. -He asked for £80 out of the business to buy same furnitnre, as bis. house wae not properly furnished. The amount was given to him, and he gave an 1.0. U., which he "thought would be placed against £100 coming to him out of the business; but instead of that, when the business was sold, Thompson, his friend, said that he could only receive £27.- Ho took it to enable hiim to' leave .Auckland. Afterwards he bad a letter informing him that if he did not know the difference betweeu other people's money and his own he should be taught. (Laughter.)