Fraudulent Bankruptcy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 76, 22 February 1883, Page 2

Fraudulent Bankruptcy.

(BY TELK.GIUPH). j {UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION".) Inveboargill, Feb. 21. At a meeting of the creditors of Joseph Moore, laborer, and deferred ppymont settler, of Lime Hill, it was iouad that the debts amounted to £127, and the prored asatts were a 0017 und ; two pigs, of the value of £4. la the eridea.ee it was deposed that the debtor I said a crop off the land a week before ; filing. Ie cast £5 to file, and he got I tucker, and didn't know where the rtsb ! want ; it Jeft him somehow. He would-, 1 not give up his section. He got a silk [ drea« the day before he filed, and also a suit of clothe?. On the 3rd iustant he bought; his wife a locket m some shop. They had clothing to keep them going for a few montha. He owed £2 lUs for Bunyan'B works. He bought them that his wife mignt road to him, tie had not paid for thw timber of his house, and did not thiuk he had erer paid for the nails used. He bought a dress costing £10 lor his wile two years ago. A. auditor statsd that the bankrupt had got 2001 b of sugar and a box of tea from his firm during the past six weeks. It was resolved to prosecute for fraudulent bankruptcy.