AND ALLIED COMPANIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10730, 19 February 1897, Page 3

AND ALLIED COMPANIES.

TO THE EDITOR. purpose of proving to the court that because I UsthT CoT rnedia the »"P«Sion of the fLLit^°T Sheet °! Walfcec Guthrieand Co ssspsssss Se leaffc rPM¥Ste in, forma«°°- ThKosay Bulled 'T f a mallci°us attempt on Mr splits srw s^srs area z\™ ni^ T h r ld h-^ w X reldv Mr r,, ?° Sr h ? D im P°rt»°' Poiat. How makl affidav ffW ttOm time to fcime *° Cwkiutalt' Patticul»r Wend Mr iffi^ v neaven-boru liquidator ! To read the affidavits one would thiuk that Mr Cook had ' •pani e r a ndfh elr t f hU life b»t com- j pames, and that there was no other man in the colony who could work out Buc"d reTult, j cf'me *t J7 a" , thr? Bh haS beeQ »» ell rid Pn n y« hazards, because I stood in Mr I ■ote^nH*.*" C^° k hassec«^ the position of I h,n. I? 3« d receiver°f the company per- 1 haps he may reflect a little, more 'especially f ! he has a conscience to prick him He mv i know that from the date of my appointment *, 1 Walter Guthne and Co (Limited) he has not only not attempted to wok harmonious^"wife* me, but has done everything in his power to r^^fee 81;!;! 1 this has been «™ *«»i dari^l°| kft°^ d b<? haU feU°W WeU mßt to uw r,nm g fr *' me he Was scllemiDg to ouat mo If om office. As an instance of his scheming I S Wa Od Ud!l™ er M OH th, e unde^dway he trie/ to saddle me with tho responsibility of delivering i iofn n m CODBI# n I me-" fc e°ods- Thi« w-' "feT«3 | cnnr P r^ a"ld-I lfc< but Mf C°ok Judiciously t ,'' J WOuld rematk tbafc OTer f°»months have elapsed since the premises were tenr«i of f ori ender- «>« i« powible to have ! A? thf f ,°r k ' Or fully two mont"s to com... i teifthoT'- 1 eiPlT 3Bed a V6l' y BtroQe opinion that the business should bo carried on with a ,; Pf tlnß ff Ofl J°H 03r' but Mr Cook ««»ted oS giving e ff eot to tho idea expressed by Mr Buller and maintained that a sale by tender was the fully half of the stock would have been I realised before the time tenders «n I wou'd » °Peat\ Bnd thß sum so realised i womd amount to more than will cow be ; realised oy the sale of the whole stock, m^JSHf fVI6W-^ °l ne °Ut by SU the «POtieiiced m^chants with whom I have diicusaed the dittareut methods of realisation I »m satisfied that the result will b 3 au enormous loss to all pities concerned, but the re.pon M bilrty tor this will not rest' on my tlmt or the above and other reasons it has not I | afford ef me any pleasure to be aß soeiated with i ilam &c m bu6lness of the liquidation.- ! j Duned'in, February 18. W. H. Bbknt. i