SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3541, 29 June 1874, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

Monday, June 29. (Before his Honor Mr Justice Chapman.)

Complete Execution op Deep.—ln the case of Alfred K utley a deed of arrangement and assignment was declared completely executed.—'l he time for the same in the case of Alfred Lawrence was extended to July 20. Adjudication. —Jehu Bryan’ was adjudged a bankrupt; first meeting to be held on July 7. Final Examinations. — A final order ef discharge was gra .ted to Hume Campbell Dickson.—The final examinations of John Blakely and Achilla Fleury were fixed—the former for July 20, the latter for July 6.

Adjourned Final Examination.— The adjourned cavo of James Walker was continned to-day j Mr E. Cook agaia appearing for bankrupt, Air J, Smith opposing. The following evidence was given : Robert Howlistou, farmer at the (Jlutha, aaid he was father of bankrupt's wife, and had given her a town section of land at St. Kilda, but no other presents of any importance. No deed of conveyance was executed, but witness just gave it to her. Witness has four sons, all of them laboring men, and none of whom have any property. He was not aware that any ot them had made Mrs Walker any present,—Robert Howliston, jun., son of last witness, said he once gave Mrs Walker 1 L James Walker, bankrupt, said the money paid to Mr Begg for land and expended in erecting the brick building at Anderson’s Bay was saved by his wife, who £ B6d «r d ° waßhi “fi- * nd sell fruit, lollies, &o. v\ itness had made the same statement m his examination last week, and did not wish to alter it. His wife had sold the section for.Lss to a digger whrm witness knew up-country, and whe was now in England. Witness did not know his name, although he had known him and sold him goods in 1862. The digger said he had made a lot of money, and the land would be useful some day. The L 4 )0 laid out on the land bought from Mr Begg and on the building, was made up partly by this L 55, and by L 175 which witness’s wife had saved up from her own earnings. She used to keep her money locked up in a drawer, and witness had seen her count over L 175 about two months before the building was commenced. At bis previous examination, witness said his wife first paid Mr Begg L2O on account of the land, and afterwards Ll7, both of which sums she took from her earniugs—and he would repeat it. She wanted «ome of the L 175 to pay for the building. ignes Walker, wife of bankrupt, gave similar evidence, adding that her son, a boy of about twelve years of age, had earned L 45 from bankrupt as wages, and this amount her son gave her. Three or four years ago witness obtained a protection order at the Mayor’s Court, because her husband had left her. He had since returned, and they had lived together for more than the last two years.--After counsel had addressed the Court, his Honor said that the case seemed to him to disclose a system of fraud, with the inention of defeating the creditors. Bankrupt md his wife had failed to prove whence they obtained LIBB of the amount laid out on the build ng. His certificate would be suspended for twelve months.