SCHEDULES IN INSOLVENCY, FILED IN DUNEDIN.
Maemaduke Constable,, flax-dresser, Dunedin. Debts, ' LB2O 5s lc ; assets, L527'105: deficiency, L 292 15s Id.' Robert : Mason, ' builder, ' Dunedin. Debts, L4so' 15s 6d ; assets, L3l :- defiI ciency, L 419 15s 6d. Hyman Cohen', publican, Dunedin. Debts,- "L241-ls; assets, L 367; 10s 9d (including estimated value- of lease and license of the Freemasons' 'Hotel, «fee. , Maolaggan street) : surplus, L 126 9s 9d. "'James Knox, carpenter,- Clutha Ferry. Debts, L2GB 17s lid ; assets, nil. Frederick Cross, timber" merchant, Dunedin, l)ebts of Walter , Bell and the insolvent, trading, as "timber' merchants under ,tHe, style of.'^^l^ ,Bell,.and 'Co., L26,8C0 7s 4d, apart >froni contingent liabilities on bills discounted, ,to about LIO,OOO ;• private debts ■ (including L2OO to" the firm of Walter Bell and, Co), L 712. Assets of the firm, 1 about Ll2, oso;' private assets,. nil. j; " :<.••"<• :-'.,'>„ i -. . ", , Mark Charibs GatcheliJ farmer, South Tokom'air'iro. .1" Debts,' 'H369 16s ; assets, .L 290 : ,,,, deficiency', L 79 16s. — Causes of inability, <&c. :\ Having leased land at LI per. acre; r , the .prices obtained ■for produce not having .been sufficient to pay rent and expenses ,v exhaustion of the small; 'capital with which the insolvent commenced. ■ <• • ; '-> .'■ ' ■'< . , Charles Prouse,' builder, Dunedin. Debts, L 292 4s 9d;.' asset's, L9O 15s 7d (mainly due. on the completion of a contract). " Robert Crawford Laino, bootmaker, Oamaru. ' /Debts,' L 686 jSis J ;, \ assets, L 7.75 (of .which, X 473 .is th6,'esi^inated value of property, and L 302, 'the, amount, of book debts) •.' surplus,- L9B 125. . ', . Causes of ia- . ability, &c, : , Bad debts ;i .illness in family ; -pressure of creditors^; '< : r .\- . '■■-,■" "j '. vTomr'ADAMs, 'Grocer, Du'iiedin. Filed February'^lVihl' , William' Do wniejSte^ai't, ,solicitor..'|^V,. ',-,.... ',\'m .;..,,',..,".' ,'-' • ' «■ Charxes Grey, late-Hotelkeeper,- Dunediu.' Filed ' February 17th. ' ". Charles 'Alexander GRUT,"Licensed '"vTc'tuallerr Dunedin^ " v "Filed' February12th.•,,;,-,,, ... t rfy, iU :, ,•;:; '
By letters' received from, the' North Island, the' Lyttelton Times le&tha that it is probable the Government will expand the 'whole of the snm voted for the reception' of the Duke of 'Edinburgh' hi' Auckla'nd ; ahd 'Wellington. .- • It ' is' reported ' by the Wellington Independent "that aii attempt' I ' was ' recently made by the Government to remove Sullivan, 1 the Maungatapu murderer,' from Nelson to some other settlement. ' ' He was 'brought down quietly in ordinary costnmo, to the' Otago, on her last trip from Nelson to this port, by ' a constable in plain clothes; but ' as the affair I became .known, . the 'captain ' refused' to ; take him;' and the prisoner jnad/ to 'be'haridcufFed and put on shore. ' •'■ r " ■■>,-•■-'
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Otago Witness, Issue 847, 22 February 1868, Page 11
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409SCHEDULES IN INSOLVENCY, FILED IN DUNEDIN. Otago Witness, Issue 847, 22 February 1868, Page 11
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