A SOLICITOR'S ESTATE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 212, 12 October 1914, Page 10

A SOLICITOR'S ESTATE.

APPARENT SURPLUS. A private meeting of the creditors of a solicitor, whose absence from the city I had occasioned some anxiety, was held this afternoon. There was a-large attendance. For some time past an auditor has been overhauling the business books of the solicitor. ,' - • A -financial statement was submitted to-da}', which showed that the .assets, including debts : owing to - the solicitor, were valued at £43,000. -...■• The ascertainable liabilities amounted to £2B*ooo, so there -is an apparent surplus of £15,000. The meeting adjourned for a fort--night,\to enable further investigation to be made. - The Rev. R. S. Hammond has arrived at Sydney by +W Mamma, en route to New Zealand, to participate. v in, the Prohibition campaign.—Press Association. Shortly after noon to-day ; the Fire Briga'de was summoned rlo eytingiiiafc a grass fire in a vacant section "in Slater Street, North Richmond. Th« property is owned by -Mr Percy Herriott. \ ' . A fire in a macrocarpa hedge in. front of Mr E. Wilson's house at West Lyttelton -brought > out the brigade at, 3 afternoon. The outbreak was quelled before auy serious .damage was done, though the residence was within a few, feet of the fire. .: The Arts and Grafts Exhibition continues to be on view at the.Art Gallery from 10 a.m. till 5, p.m., and 7.30 p.m. till 9.30 p.m., and both attendances and sales are satisfactory. The art-union is to be drawn to-morrow evening. Mr J. W. H. Scotland, the aviator, who 4s at present undergoing treatment in the Christchurch Hospital for an affection of the throat, is, reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery! The experiences of some travellers in Germany after war was declared were far from enviable.. Writing to a friend in Invercargill an English lady says:—*'Miss G has got back from Berlin after wonderful^adventures. She-had to leave nearly all her luggage behind, as well as a diary she kept while staying in wermany. She said the Germans behaved well enough under the circumstances, but they are terrified of letting anybody over a bridge somewhere near the frontier of Denmark, and they made all the passengers get out of the .train there and find their- way on foot as well as they could across the frontier. - The bridge is two miles aeross, and Miss G and the others had to drag what ! luggage they had that distance through ; rough fields, they arrived ai Copenhagen thjeir feet were blistered and bleeding, says she will .never forget the agony she went through." The effects of the windstorm on Saturday were not without their humorous aspect, says the Ashburtou ''Guardian." More than one person who had eyes covered with hands to protect the optics from dust suffered collision witl other pedestrians, and one was unfor tunate enough to walk into- a telegraph pole. A severe gust of wind caught one young, lady unawares and blew her legs from under her, letting her down heav ily. A local butcher had the back doof of his delivery cart blown off, and joints of meat, chops, sausages, and other dainties for the larder were strewn over the road. A young man was blown with some force against a; wooden fence, and what little wind he had left in his body after battling with tiie "breeze" was knocked out of . him. Travellers by the first express from Christchurch reported that at Rakaia all vision was obscured by the flying dust, and they could not see 10 yards from the train. Once during the journey from Rakaia to Ashburton the train had to pull up and finally stop. A member of the "Guardian" staff who was riding in from Winchmore had the glass in the goggles he was wearing broken by pieces of grit.