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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1639, 19 February 1886, Page 4

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' (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) -.i ■ ':; Auckland, A'^M.Mjiay. i A. Layboarne and Co., a firm of produce merchants, are arranging ,with their creditors. Their liabijitiea., are £16,000; and they are likely to pay 12s 6d'inthe£. ' '■' '■ ' :. New Plymouth, Thursday. ; 1 - A licensing meeting of the Taranaki Bench cannot be held this year, owing' to the usual notices not having been ad*vertised m tithe. The Governor will therefore be called to noniinate membera. Wellington, Thursday. The Government offer £100 reward for information leadirg to the conviction of the persons who set fire to the public school at Hokitika on the 7th January last. '- ' At a meeting of creditors m the bankruptcy estate of A, ThoinDson, grocer, who is believed to have left Wellington, a resolution was carried, "That the Official Assignee be authorised to spend the necessary money required for the captnre of the bankrupt and his prosecution for fraudulent bankruptcy." The supervisors of the' estate recommended that ia reward of £50 fcr bis apprehension and

ronyictioOj-br a proportionate sum for | knyHnformation as to bankrupt's move : Writs'! be»' offered, and -that, say, . 500 hand bills be published with a photograph of bankrupt at the head thereof pffering the above reward.