A FRIENDLY SUIT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 9

A FRIENDLY SUIT.

teath ana Beere on behalf of the representatives of Manderson made claim to ife. * Under the singular circumstance! the Public Trustee declined to pay over the money, which was subsequently claimed by Mr T. .Young on behalf of the representatives of Bird. Ultimately it, was agreed by the parties to divide the money, with the consent; of the Trustee and the sanction of the .Supreme Court. A friendly suit was accordingly instituted, which came before the Chief Justice to-day in the form of a motion for an order directing the Public Trustee to make an equal division of -the money. His Honor, however, deferred the mutter for further consideration. 10 is proposed to form a volunteer corps for Central Taieri. An eminent professor says that the age ol fish is almost unlimited. As to the leegth of the life of fish, it is said that the ordinary carp, if not interfered with, would live about 500 years. The ordinary goldfish has also been known to live orei* 100 years..

A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAIRARAPA WRECK. Wellington, May 31. A singular ease was heard in Chambers today before the Chief Justice. When the Wairarapa was wrecked on the Great Barrier Island iv October, 1894-, there were on board two New Zealand miners named George Bird (of Petone) and Angus Manderson, who were returning from Coolgardie. Each was suppoied to have left Sydney with money in his possession. Both were drowned, and subsequently their J bodies washed ashore, aud buried in the same j grave. Among the effect* taken off the bodies were two belts, in one of which was £133 in gold. Somehow the effects got mixed up, and no one was afterwards able to aay from which body the belt containing the gold was taken. Tbe money was in due course deposited with the Public Trustee, aad recently Messrs Men-