SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4309, 18 December 1876, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

V IN BANKRUPTCY. : Monday, December 18. (Before Mr Justice WuUairis.) lie Edward Chbistopher GrEOBGK.--Mr Joyce applied for a final order- of discharge in this bankrupt's case, which was granted. Be .Richard Stbatford.—This case was struck out, the Official Trustee reporting that he had, at bankrupt's solicitor's request, forWarded to bankrupt a list of questions which required answering previous to making up his report. lie Joseph Mackay.-THs was a summons calling upon Joseph Mackay to show why he should not be adjudioated a bankrupt. Mr Haggitt appeared for the petitioner, the National Bank of New Zealand?; Mr Stewart for Mapkay,—Mr Stewart aubmitted that oral evidence was necessary to aehieve the object of the petition in addition to the filing of an affidavit, the letter being merely a preliminary step, on which the summana issued- .Counsel ajso objected that the- attorney of th© Bank BhQwed%) authority to petition for the adtadiofctiof j that th 3 security could not be valued,.there being no raaunenprovidftd for valuta? we>iri*

cW w- w^ 8 .°i £ Lo interpretation claxise.--.HiB Honor said that as %h£ was the £fL C - aS % Und€r th ? new Act, wd thero in it many points of importance, ha Would consider his judgment, be delivered in Chambers onT]MS3Sjn^