A LIVELY MEETING OF CREDITORS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 7

A LIVELY MEETING OF CREDITORS.

TCrom the Auckland Bell’s report of Mr G. S XS meeting of creditors we extract Drury Lowe remamed w>t h wUh t ba f U tbeir X-rs were settled, He * SSLot) himself suggested it, saying it i )fc tter. He bad written to Captain would be better• re q U eßt. make good the loss he (Mr Brassey) bad Sustained. It would be, however, some ,Daa tv. a Rpfore be received an answer. That p'S"“ °< *“”• ‘ &u * ° l ' H “ r - Mr Hanohard (to Mr Brassey : Did you not propose to give me a life policy on his (Captain Lowe's! life ? Mr Brassey : I did not, I said to you after yon sue 1 me, to tell if it would satiny you to take an insurance policy over bis \ie» Mr Hancbard : Did I take it ? Mr Brassey ; No, yon refused. Mr Hancbard ; And you said, You are a fool; I can kill him with drink in six (greatly excited vebe i m=ntly) ; L’e a lie ; a false, daitardly lie and base invention. It is a lie ; a he—a cowardly lie, (Sensation and 'uproar, m which the Official Assignee in vain appei.el for order, and thkc such personalities and language Bh Mr d Hancbard'! \ will state that upon my ° 3 jf’. Abbott. Where is be now ? Mr Brassey. la the house with my father 84 Mr" Hancbard : Has he not a small annuity 1 Mr Brastev : No. Mr Hancbard : I know he has. Mr Brassey : Then if it comes to that, I tnow as a matter of fact he has not. Mr Abbott : The moment Brassey brought that man to me I got into low water fluichter) and I have been there ever since <r C neted iauuh-er )Mr Abbott again moved his resolution. Some conversation here arose ai to who Bhould vote, and the Official Assignee read the £? of creditors, adding that, in- any case he presumed no one would object to the reso.utl°Mr Brassey : I would ask the creditors t. ■« g« «*,"a do so. I would like to mention, and I would ask the representatives of the Press to take notire of it, that so far from my making such a statement as has been charged upon me that I could kill Captain Drury Lowe with drink. I took him aw y from the Northojte Hotel and sect him away where he now is to get him away from drmk. , . 8 Mr Hancbard ; I can take my oath oa it. Mr Rigby here made a statement confirming Mr Hancharc.’s remark". Mr Brassey : And I say the statement made by Mr Rkby is false. (Cries of Ob, oh, and Han chat d ; Yon can’t expect anybody to believe (hat, Brassey. * / Mr Brassey : The statement made by Mr Rigby is not true. . . Mr Rigby : What a confounded lie. That is a deliberate lie. (Laughter.) Well, Brassey. you are the most abomnable and consumma.e liar I ever heard in my life. _ Mr Brassey : You. are a h*r.