SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2655, 21 August 1871, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

' IN BANKRUPTCY. ,£his Day, (Before Mr Justicp Chapman.) ADJUDICATIONS. Richard Frederick Waterlow and William Bready were adjudged bankrupts; first meeting of creditors to be hold on the 29th instant, in Waterlow’s case at Oamaru. FINAL DISCHARGES, &C. The following ipattgrs were adjourned to September ll—William Bailer apd John Cleverly. Re J. W. Heaps. —Adjourned for a week, to allow the trustee in bankruptcy time to enquire as to the bankrupt’s assets. Kb George Lumb. Adjourned for a week. Re John T. Chaplin. Mr Macaasey stated that an affidavit had been filed herein by Mr Beal, Manager of -the Bank of New Zealand, who stated he had read the certificate of the trustee; that in his opinion no one could state at present whethor or not the securities held by the bank wore sufficient to cover its claim ; that tho securities -consisting of- a contract, had been referred to arbitration, and until the award was made

their value could not ba trscertamedp jmd praying that the valued by the Registrar, as the opinion of, Mr Dundas, radway engineer for Soathjand, was that their value was considerably less than the Bank’s claim, viz about V or L 14.000. 'v'. ' After a short discussion, His" Honor ordered that the time for making the application for complete execution should be extended for a fortnight; the Registrar to . oxamine-into the value of the Bank’s securities, and to report, so that the application could be beard on Sept 11. Re John H. Zierk. The bankrupt’s application for an extension of time iu which to ask for a complete execution of a deed of arrangement, was granted. Re C. Goldammer. Examination of .witnesses. Adjourned for a week. , „ t Jr. • - <; ; ■ /. ff. J ,OPPOSED CASE. vi .Re , Thomas Parsons,— The bankrupt' wrts opposed ; byHkrris j Mr W! W. Taylor appeared for him. iu answer to Mr Harris, ho stated that he was a groom, ainfl ( . in 1860 had been in the employ; of Chaplin and Co. at the Pigroot, At the hotel thebe, he became acquainted with Catherine Dijincm, the housekeeper. He recollected the Hogham; races, sometime in the beginning" of 1869. He recollected Miss Duncan giving him LlO at that time. She asked if he was going to the races, and said she would lend him LIQ. She volunteered to give him the money. He repeated she gave him the LlO. He was no scholar ; but he knew the difference between giving aiid borrowing ; he supposed to borrow was when one asked to get the loan of a thing 1 . ’Well, he borrowed the MO, but didn’t pay it back. The transactions, between them were so curious th it he could not state whether he borrowed the money , or not; but he would explain. She used to keep his mony as well as her own ; every cheque he got from. Cbap’in and Co. she kept for him. The LlO was her money. Subsequently he borrowed further sums from . her, amounting altogether to 1/28, which he afterwards reduced to L 24. He Ixad not paid ; her one shilling of that back. At the Pigroot,he ha I Lll a mouth, winch was equal to L 5 a month clear, after paying his board and lodging. He was at the Pigroot eighteen months ; and afterwards went : ,to Tokomairiro as groom to Mr Langley for LI a week and found. From February JSG9 up to the present time.he had only been out of employment for a couple of mouths. (Mr Harris lure read two letters by the bankrupt, in which ho offered to pay Miss Duncan LI a week regularly, provided she with- ■ drew the action" she had .brought against, him.) He telegraphed to Miss Duncan that he would send her a bill endorsed by Mr Langley. He admitted 1 that he filed his schedule A couple of days afte.rw.ards. None of his other creditors were pressing him. He did not send the bill because Langley would not endorse it. By Mr Taylor: it ho had mariied Miss Duncan he would never, have heard about the money. (His Honor : f you had married her, you might have pawned her clothes.) In answer to further . que tons, the bankrupt explained that he. meet with .josses in travelling .through The, country!' Last soasoh with an entire belonging to' Mr E.' Pritchard.' His Honor, in dealing with the case, said: —As for the speculation of taking Pritch ard’s horse about the country, that was fairly a legitimate one which a groom might undertake, and it seemed to have turned out remunerative, which would therefore accoiint forfsome of -the bankrupt's losses. 'But what struck’ him (the learned - judge) -when, he .read 'the trustees’ report was that here was a man apparently during his whole career, from the beginning of 1809 down to the pre sent time, in the receipt of really good wages —at all events of fair wages. He was a single man, had no encumbrances, and had not been cast into misfortune’ by sickness,' and yet he could not live within his income. * There was no doubt Catherine Duncan was herselt partly to bjamc. Perhaps there had been i>omelovqpassagesbetwefpthein—ifsuph wgre t ie pise, his conduct was the moig heartless and when she lent him the first LlO, see might have dope so haying bflpcs that he would marry her. But there was no evidence to show that that applied to the other sums. He bad aso admitted. that he had lost L3O by horse-racing—that was by betting. He should have Jived within his income, and not having done ro must take the consequences. Certificate suspended, for six months, ** ■ «»-■* ■■ t IN BANCO. CaUXTT V. CaMCBELL AND, OTHERS. — After taking some additional evidence,’the Co'uft'adjdurheJ uritiTt'd-morrow.