SUPREME COURT

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 September 1902, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

SATURDAY, 13th SEPTEMBER,

[Before Ills Honor Mu Justice CONOLLY. j IX BANKRUPTCY. Mr K. X. Jones applied for an order of discharge on behalf of J. i>. Kelley, artist. The debtor was unable to appear through illness. Mr Nolan appeared to opposo, on behalf of I’. Ilayman and Co., Auckland, creditors in the estate. After hearing argument of counsel, llis Honor said there might be some points about the bankruptcy that were uot altogether satisfactory, but it was evident that there was no fraud, and no doubt ill health, which had culminated in a recent attack of hemorrhage of the lungs, had something to do with the filing. No good purpose would be served by withholding the discharge. The order for immediate discharge would, therefore, be granted. CHAMBERS. Mr R. N. Jones applied on behalf of Mr G J. A. Johnstone for letters of administration (with will annexed) in the estate of Elizabeth Johnstone, deceased, and also for revocation ofletters of administration already issued. Letters of administration had already been issued on the suggestion that the deceased had died intestate, but subsequently a will was discovered and the present application simply changed the title of the administrator. —The order was granted as prayed. Mr A. W. Rees applied for the petitioning creditors’ costs in the estate of James Erskine to be paid out of the estate. Mr Nolan, for the Official Assignee, consented to the order. Messrs Stevens and Co., of Dunedin, had filed a -creditors' petition, which was before the date of hearing rendered unavailing by the debtor himself tiling a petition in bankruptcy. —An older was made for taxed costs to be paid out of the estate np till receipt of notice of the second petition.