LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7408, 17 August 1885, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

« *— — BANKRUPTCY. i debtors' EXAMINATIONS. ; John Putt (Baker).—This debtor, who had , been adjudicated a bankrupt on hia own i petition, made the following sworn state- • ment before the Official Assignee lam a • baker by trade, and carried on that business i on my own account up to two years ago in I Tauranpa. I had then about £250 in cash. ; With this capital I commenced a saw-mill in ( the Rotorua district about the middle of j 1883. I got plant to the value of £450 in ! Auckland. On this I paid £50, and gave bills for the balance. Shortly afttr I got the plant on the ground one of my oreditors ( served me with a writ for £90 for cartage of i the plant. This happened about the latter end of September, 18S3. About the same i time one of the bills for the plant matured. It was for £100 ; and, having disbuiaed the remainder of my capital in various ways— viz., wages, material, cartage, &c.~-I was unable to meet it. I came to Auckland to consult my creditors, and they advised that a man should be sent to take charge and manage the mill. Since then I have done nothing in connection with the mill. All m> books and papers are in possession of the bills-holder. The whole of my debts, £312 10s 6d, were incurred during my connection with the mill. I have no assets whatever. I am a married man, and live under my brother's roof, and am in his employ as a journeyman baker, at 20a and partly found. Geokge Caknes Laverock, baker, dapooed as follows in his examination by the l flluial Assignee :—I am a baker by trade, rud have been off and on in business, principally in the fciotorua district, since 1876. I commenced with a capital of £30. 1 never made more than a comfortable living, and have never acquired property or saved money. At the time of the difficulty between Mrs. Robinson and the natives and Mr. Robert Graham, in 1880, there was a complete stagnation of trade. This was the commencement of my trouble. I gave up my business £50 in debt, and went to work as a journeyman at 35s per week. I went into business a v ain in 1883 at Kingsland. 1 started entirely on credit. Three months after my old creditors began to press for their money, and eventually, in November, 1884, I had to give it up £200 in debt. After this I was out of employment for six months, when I got work as a farm labourer at 70s for the services of myself and family (4) and my wife's sister. My present debts amount to £252 17» 4(1—£52 8s 3d is for household necessaries, and the balance on trade account. 1 have put down £74 as due to my aatate for book debts, but some of this is owing by Maoris, and the others are much scattered about Rotorua, Tauianga, and Auckland. I think £30 might be got in. The only other asset 1 have got is my furniture, which I estimate to be worth £15. I have no other property or prospects whatever beyond what I can earn by my own labour. The weekly money I drew for the services ot myself and family, viz., £3 103 per week, is | all absorbed for maintenance and wages, or allowances, to my step-son and sister-in-law. POLICE COURT.—Saturday. [Before H. G. Seth Smith, Eq., K.M.I Begging. — George Turner was charged with a breach of the Police Offences Act by begging in -street on August B.— The accused pleaded inability to procure work at his trade. — Constable Russell deposed that he arrested the accused on complaint being made of his constant begging at tobacconists'shops. —Remanded to Monday to procure the attendance of witnesses. Vagrancy.—Patrick Pearce, on remand I from August 8, was charged with having no lawful visible means of support on August 7.—Sergeant Pratt explained that an order had been obtained to readmit the accused to the Old Men's Refuge.—Ordered to be removed to the Refuse. The Arc *dkßoilijings.—Thomas Graham was charged with assaulting Edwin Mander on August 14.—Mr. W. J. Napier appeared for the prosecution, and applied to have the case withdrawn, as the parties bad settled th' ir differences. It seemed that some coni viviality had taken place 011 Friday at the Victoria Arcade Buildings awing to the event of reaching the roof of the building. Liquor flowed freely on tho occasion, and the defendant, allowing his good sense to become mixed, had a quarrel with the prosecutor, but had now paid all costs, and was sorry for his conduct. —Withdrawn accordingly. Support or Childkkn.—William Robert Townsbend was charged with being £7 in arrears towards the support of his four children. —The defendant said he had been unable to make an arrangement with his wife.— Remanded to Tuesday. Lunacy. — William Taylor, a bushman, who had been brought up from Mercury Bay by Constable Walker, was charged with being of unsound mind.—His Worship ordered him to be examined by two medical men, and on their testimony he was committed to the Lunatic Asylum. Sunday Liquor Trading.— Harry Bennett, licensee of th« Clarendon Hotel, was charged with a breach of the Licensing Act by selling beer to Richmond Knewstub, Walter Alexander, Frank George, Edward Pearson, and Frank Gardiner, on August B.— Sergeant Pratt explained that Mr. Cotter, who wag instructed for the defence, had arranged with him to adjourn the case. The defendant, notwithstanding this request, should have . answered the charge-—Ad-journed to Tuesday, August 18.