AN OAMARU BANKRUPTCY CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 3463, 28 March 1874, Page 2

AN OAMARU BANKRUPTCY CASE.

.. Io t \ lQ insolvency jurisdiction, of the. ’ramaru District.Court, before Judge. °? :, MatthW l Cdtric, bootmaker" . of Oamaru; applied for',lus^ial,discharge In the course of the eihmihatioti, he said: ‘ About Christmas last yew? i was at.Hakff-? teramea Station, Canterbury. l . , On i oomih'gf down, from Jacksou*s>&tMipn,l''twt& seryad jwithin writ, at the suit of Sargood, Son*.; and Ewen, for L42T Us. It was withinabout a mile of the Eurow punt where'! . crossed the river. When I got the writ I had about a. couple of hundred pounds/ aoout -me, "The object of taking thW money up the W&itaki Whs' to-have 5 •- change to cash cheques. . It consisted * principally of gold and baiM notes. I' might have; bad LfiO in gold? On toy teterii from thkitatiobs I ’ymted/'T fstopped at M ‘Co>yati’a, at the Waithlji ferW. r-<i I tried'to get the trap,"horses, and 'myssf ‘ crossed together. Thfe boatmen said I podld il ' !J noticrosß. I then arranged (..with: M‘Cowan? :to leave the things at. his place and brossldf jover myself. .river was, high, and J had '>■ to lean over the boat a good deal to steady • the horse: When I . got to the■accommo* datmn house 1 missed my pocket book. I, dp; not see the . poppet , book >go over at _ all. ; I was, holding- the' horse with both hands. The horse was swim*; ming on both sidrs. The river was up - and running very fast. I mused the pocketbook at the accommodation house, because' I begah to look for it. The pocket-book was" 1 very full and fitted very tight. It wakO very. Heavy. There would be-about'TOO ?^nn rei?nß .t fc ~T here waa about* I. did not consider, it*,' would be much' safer -tb'‘ «afrys:An&/ m a chamois leather : bag in my trqusau pocket.' -When-I got to Übtcih’s acothmoS' 1 tion house Tt' was a little ‘ after 4. 1 V looked' T r? r . Bdbket-hboki as I was going to shout '' r tor the men, and missing it I said '“ Good : gracious or Good heavens, I’ve lost my pocket-book;” I think I said 1 had lost it'" m the riveh- I did not gb' to Se6 if it ; had 51 ’ dropped into the boat that night. This coach was ready .to start,, and, I had. to get, into., Oatnara. The chief purpose of to Oamaru was to pay this money, was , spoken of at the time that, the money might * be iri theboatj and I told Miller, the boat: , man, to look for it. I had to come into ” Uamaru because the time for the writ was nearly up. You had eight days’time te plead, and you came down without looking for your money ?-Yes. I did not conuidw“ much about it. I could have Btopped A t tb« W.iitaki. I could have‘waljced^ in'im morning. I, came into Oatnarii, 1 ; kud went out by the next morning’s coach to tee af er the pocket book. When I home ! to i d . m y wi e aud 80 “e of the Children abbdt*’ wbathad happened. I did not leave, the. house that night, and next nfcming I re., turned by thecoach. I Went to theriierby ' tb « boa ‘ landing; The boat was therk I , , asked the boatmen if they had sLen tba pooM boot . They s«d. U* 2S ac ™ 4 tke " »nd' mmauied' foot ! q 8 * c o u hl not cross my trap, ’ l I searched a good bit doWn: the bahk of the whep I wtexe tlw P dcket .

At this stagey jof .-i the,!, Mr O’Meagher applied to have the further heaving'of the case postponed, until next sitting, in order to allow of the production of evidence on the part of the opposition, which was done.