IN BANKRUPTCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13905, 12 November 1908, Page 7

IN BANKRUPTCY.

In otahuhu builder's affairs. | . ; A metiing of creditors in the estate' of James Muir, builder, late of Otahuhu, who r. died intestate, was held at the official assiS;nee's office yesterday. Agnes Mary • ' Hiiir, administratrix of the estate, had | Petitioned to be relieved of the position, - and the application was granted. IH| .'■The assignee read a statement, put in ' ' V the solicitor for administratrix, show--.sv-,S that the assets were put down as • >r,» and the amount of claims sent in against the estate, including claims for liens, totalled £2170 3s 2d. Included in , the assets were the amounts due from two . unfinished contracts, which had subsequently been finished, but against which there were a number of liens and orders, The moneys owing to the estate amounted " J "to-£55 12s 7d, in addition to the con--7 tacts mentioned. Mr. Gerard said ie understood that Stll-: 6 ?? 1 of the liens mentioned on the contracts were not good. If all the liens and todcrs mentioned held good there would P® a very trifling dividend for unsecured creditors. 4 1 §S||| The meeting was adjourned sine die in * ' that ie official assignee might go _ lato the question of liens and orders. msmt ———• — "A DARGAVILLE BANKRUPTCY. •Herbert Henry Standing, of Dargaville, ' hj! kush contractor, filed a petition in bank- | *?jptcy on Tuesday. The first meeting of »creditors ; will be held at Dargaville on >, r '^ a y> the 20th inst. WfcMii--: ' ■ frV.-'.f'-""' ' ============