MEETING OF CREDITORS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1734, 8 May 1888, Page 3

MEETING OF CREDITORS.

An adjourned meeting of creditors of j George Meredith, jon., a bankrupt, was held veaterday afternoon in the Courthouse, Temuka. In the absence of the DeputyAssignee, Mr J. M. Twomey was voted to the chair, and there were present besides Meters J. J Town, W. G. Aspin.ll, ,T. Maodonald, J. Mailtr, E. Brown, and A. Meredith. - Mr J. Hay appeared for the debtor. The following evidence wa> The debtor, in answer to Mr J.Brown, said: The piano I had last it the piano on which I : paid » 8s to Mr Hutton Since I paid the £f 2s I have paid nntbing to Mr Button oc aoeount of the piano. The piano was in ray DOfsession on Auguit H, 1886, the date of my salt. The piano has been out of my pos cession on several occasions, when it was lent for mutieal purposes by direotion of my sisters. The piano belonged to my sisters, The la»fc piano belonged to my sister Eva. : Tht former piano belonged to my ii«ter Marion. It coet £B4, and I paid a share o' it I paid £l3 2i on of the las' 'piano. Tjis £l3 8s has been refunded t:. toe by my »^« r Bm I & ofc • ■ loft ° from her abcut three months ago, and the £8 2< I paid Mr Hutton went towiids repaying to her the loan. I got other ioam< from her The last loan 1 got from her was £l. This was about two months ago or mora It was •bout a month before I paid Button that I got the money. I owe my sister Eva money it present. She dees not appear in my list of «reditore. The interest T had in the piano does not pay her account. I gave the • sewinr machine up to the agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The sewing machine cost £l2 10s and I only paid £3 on it, I told M* Brown on last day that I did not take my horses to be sold at Cochrane e sale. I had horses there that were not included in the bailment and they are in Mt Brown's posieision now. Tha dray I had at ■ Uochrane's sale was tba dray in the bailment, and is now in Mr Brown a Spossessior. I remember telling Mr Brown '' when he asked ms to bring to mm the tank dray that it was at my father's, and that my father was putting a body on it. That was the dray that the horses ran away with *M Xslland's. I left the shafts and two or these small irons belonging to its body on Zetland's farm. The axle is at my father's «nd tha tires at my home. I have beeu harvesting at Fairlie Or«ek. I took Mr Brown's waggon and d.ay there. I had a ; 'tilter there which belonged to Mow and ' Bray/Maeksriiths, Fairlie Creek, Bibs I.id and Gray tilter. It belongs to Moir and Bray still. I was supposed to buy it, but did not. I paid no hire for it. I had 5 all the horses in Mr Brown's possession at present at Fairlie Creek. I had five working ■■■< horses and a hack there. These horses .. I describe aa follows: not branded, named Boger; (8) Bl»ck mare Kate, no brand, no marks expept white star on face, perhaps, but I am cot sure; (3) Big bay horse with * hite face, named Jack, nto mark ; (4) Br wn horse, little tip on nose, named Clyde—l have not had him long—l havejhad him a little over 18 months t (6) little bay horse, named Cocksy, with :'»iota\of spots-the first horse I ever pwned j ;<6): Baeji, fair.aiised, dark phertniit, no : - marks. I have bad Cookery 'or or sight ysars. He has bean my prppertj evct " ijaoe, He was not inoladsd in the bill pf

Mle to Mr Brown, nor in the bailment. I • »m inre about the bill of tale, but he was not ' leiied under it. I have been a bankrupt ' ihioe I owned this horse, I mean 1 had tbe hone at the time of my first bankruptcy ' Thii horse was not included in my assets, ' but there was another horse put in place of it in mv assets. This waß a horee belonging 1 to my father. I made the exchange with ■y father because the one horse was mete ' useful in a trap than the other. The more useful of the two horses was Oockey. It was about six weeks before my bankruptcy that I exchanged the horses. There is no harness at my father's. The harness I hart in the Mackenzie Country is the harnsis I delivered up to Mr Brown under his bail ment. I neither arranged to buy, nor bought, nor exchanged, any horsos while in the Mackenzie Country. I worked out two horiea. I oarted wool for MoOoll, and took two horses in payment of my wage*, but the horses came to more than McOoll owed mo by £7, and I owe McOoll £7 now. The mine of the horses was £2l: tfcGoll saw mr yesterday, and olaimed £7 as owing to him. There are no brands on the hones I sold these two horses immediately after I came down, about the 30th of Maroh. I sold them about the 2nd or 3rd April last—one to Mr Beattie, and one to Mr Oorkery, of Qeraldine. The one to Mr Oorkery fetched £7 10*, and tho one to Mr Beattie £6 151. I gate the horse to Mr Beattie in payment of a debt whioa I owed him, He threatened to summon me. I did not then knew I was in difficulties. Mr Oorkery paid Mr Connolly, the saddlor, the £7los on my behalf, I owed the money to Mr Connolly, who was threatening to summon me. Connolly's aooonnt has bean running for four or fire years for monding harness and new hames. The £l7 due to Mr Connolly I believe has been contracted since my previous bankruptcy. I do not know • what 1 did with the money I g*t for the trap sold at Woodley's sale for £7. I did not buy a buggy with it. I have no buggy nor trap now. There is no money due to me. I came to a settlement with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency three o* four weeks ago. They took off the damages, and I took the balance. They deductd £2O, 1 and I agreed to it. They paid mo £39 early |,ln Moroh. There was £62 ooming to mo i'from Captain Hayter. He stopped £6 for I damages and £5 for contra. The orders I ! gave on him and the cheque he gave me I came to £37. This was shortly after the j ib was finished, and since he Bont Mr Mundell a cheque for £lB odd. Three pounds of this cheque were due from mo to Mr Mund°ll at the time. Mr Mundell deducted £3 from this cheque, and gave me the balanoe of £ls odd. This was about the 6th or 6th of April, when I was trying to arrange with Mr Mundell to pay Mr Brown off. I did not t ell Mr Brown on the 21th of April that £b2 was in dispute between myself and Captain Haytor, and chat I had not got it yet. I did not tell Mr Twomey that there was £6O ooming to me, but I told him I was working on a job of .£62, and I had not got all the mono? yet. I did not tell Mr Brown on Saturday, April 21st, or thereabouts, that I would ride up to Captain Hayter'a and get the money, ?n1 le< him know on Tuesday. I had some wool awhile ago. I sold it to Mr Knior at s}d per lb, and it realised £4 12s. I did not tell Mr Brown I would bring ton money to him. After the 9th of April Mr Brown told me to take the wool to Mr MoCaskill, and that he would get the money. I cannot say whether I pgreed to it. I have done several things with tbe money. My cheque-book is at home. I never had a bank pass-book. The banker has promised to send it to me. I have no chequebook with me to show what I have done with the money I have received. I have no documents with me to show whkt I have done with it.

To Mr Mailer: I owe persons at Fairlie Creek Bums which do not appear oa my lift of creditor!. I owe Mr McOoll about £7, and Mr Fritter, wheelwright, something over £4. Theie are the parties I forgot to giro notice to. Ido not think there were any other persons to whom I did not fire notice. To Mr Brown: There was only one tilter at my place at the time of the tale. There was a tilter there, and a part of another *Ur. It wai proposed by Mr W. G. Aipinall, and seoonded by Mr J. Brown—" That the debtor be initructed to furnish the -Assignee with a oomplete statement of his receipt* and expenditure for the six months immediately preceding his bankruptcy, and alio with hii bank.pasi book, cheque book, and all vouchers of accounts between him and his creditors during that period ; the same to be submitted to a meeting of creditors at Temuka, the date thereof lo be fzed by the Astignee." Carried unanimously. proposed by Mr Aspinall, seconded by Mr J. Brown, and carried —" That ihe Deputy Assignee be allowed his out-of-pocket expenses for clerical work, etc, out of the estate, suoh sum not to exceed £2 25." Proposed by Mr Aspinal', seconded by Mr J.Brown, and carrud—"Be George Mereditb. a bankrupt—ld -view of the circumttanoes, end as Mr Brown states th»t the disc harrows, seed-drill, and d.f. plough, whioh the bailiff has seised as belonging to the estate, are hip property, and were only lent by him to the bankrupt for farming purposes, and were never charged to bis account, that the said articles be given up to Mr Brown on his prodnoing satisfactory proof to the Assignee of his not having charged the bankrupt with the priee of the said articles." The meeting then adjourned to a dato to be fixed by the Deputy Assignee.