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Southland Times, Issue 3311, 30 January 1879, Page 3

In the course of a recent bankruptcy examination at WeUington, the bankrupt made the foUowtoo- ohnr> m i~ s jjooubiUuu-. — -—z auia the goodwill of my house for LIOOO, and the stock for- LISOO more, to be paid in short ! dated biUs.- I have received about L2OOO of . it. My wife bought a vessel for .LIOOO. . I gave her LI 00 towards it, but I don't know where she got the other L9OO. I suppose it wag from her savings. She had money to the Savings Bank. I canot tell whether +he vessel was registered in Mrs Mcintosh's name. It was not settled on her. I did not bank the LIOOO. Mr Nathan had LIOO of it, and the rest I paid debts with. I never knew I was so much to debt as I am. I don't know what they did with so much drapery. I cannot say why Mrs Mcintosh did not pay the drapery bills, having L9OO in the Savings Bank. I sometimes went to her for money when I wanted it. I never had more than L 5 myself. Mr Nathan- used to "send down eveiy morning for aU the money I took. He said I was foolish to keep any money in the bank, and he would be my banker, so he -charged me 2^ per cent, for receiving my money, and 2^- for percent, for paying itaway. Going down south cost me LloO. I went to -look after another 'spec' I was not ' doing it flash.' " The question has to be decided by the Supreme Court as to who was entitled to these moneys — Mrs Mcintosh's creditors, or Mr Nathan's. Nervous old gentleman to watchmaker : I " No,none of them will do. I want a watch that won't go tick, tack, tick, tack, all "the I nightlong. I hate to hear a watch tick, for it keeps me awake." ' -Watchmaker : "Ah ! I see, sir. You want one of the 'silent watches ' of the night. I don't keep 'em." Ibish. — The Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday copies this item from an Irish paper : 4 Purse lost-, by a poor widow woman who has" a sick child containing thirteen shillings and a letter." And adds :" No wonder the child is unwell." : The next item down the column is the Gazette's own and it is as follows ; " Robert Taylor, aged 83 years, is the father of twenty-five children by three wives seventeen of whom are living." TRobert jhQulcl be ti-hjd for bigttfrijv; /