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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 92, 17 April 1880, Page 2

We take the following 1 from the Post of Wednesday last : — A meeting of creditors of ' Charles Moody was held in the Supreme Court Building's this afternoon. The proceedings were of an extraordinary character, and were calculated to bring ridicule upon the present system of dealing- with bankrupts. The meeting comprised the debtor, the Deputy Registrar, one creditor in person (Mr J. B. Bridges) and three by proxies entrusted to Mr C. A. Baker. Mr Bridges proposed Mr Baker as chairman. Mr Baker, by a proxy, seconded the motion, which was solemnly put to the meeting of one creditor and three proxy papers for approval. Mr Moody took objection to this, as only one creditor was present. He woiald teach them sound law. They must have two creditors. He had not been so long in business, but he knew something of bankruptcy law. Mr Baker then retired from the chair, and by one proxy proposed, and by another proxy seconded, that Mr Bridges take the chair. Mr Bridges put the motion to himself and the proxies, and it was declared unanimously carried. Mr' Bridges then proposed Mr Baker as creditor's trustee, and Mr Baker, by Mr T. Mills' proxy, seconded the motion, which was again " declared carried. The Chairman — "Now, I have a few questions to ask Mr Moody." Mr Moody—" I shall not answer any questions you put. Put them oq paper." Mr Moody was then sworn, and in answer to some questions about his estate referred the creditors to his affidavit, in which he stated that the items in tbo schedule were correct to the best of his belief. On being requested to answer yea or no, Mr Moody said, "I shan't say yes or no. I am not going to be dictated to." The Trustee— "Mr Bridges wants to know how you come to put down £100 as the lease of the two sections ? " Mr Moody — " lam not going tell you how it is." Mr Bridges— "You have put down ' Equity of redemption, £65,' amongst your assets when £45 Is due on it. How is that ?" Mr Moody " I'll answer when I have considered it." After a pause, the debtor said, " I havn't got any equity of redemption, that's all about it. I thought I had but I find I have not." A number of other questions were put, and answered in an evasive or bounceable way. In answer to one question the debtor said to the Chairman. "I don't want law from you ; you would do better by patrolling the streets with a policeman's uniform on." The Chairman—" You would look better by having a red jacket on up at Micaiah Read's. I'll tear ray jacket off but I'll have my rights." Mr Baker— "What has become of the items set down on the list}?" Mr Moody — "Ask T. K. Macdonald." In answer to a question put by the Chairman Mr Moody uaid— "You have been a lacquey of, mine, and I'll not answer questions unless I like." In answer to what articles set down on the list were in his possession, Mr Mr Moody said he had an axe, perhaps a saw (through the chairman didn't know how to spell it); and amongst the sundries he had some carrots. The furniture put down comprised two bedsteads, two or three blankets, and something else, which he had put down at £25. Upon a question being put, Mr Moody said — '• I Ibelieve it is a fundamental principle of law that no person is bound to answer any question which may criminate him, and for this reason I'll not answer any more. You can put that in your pipe and smoke it. That is all I'm going to answer." This terminated the proceedings. Hemp plants are recommended to c cultivated in vineyards, orchards, &c. , for the f banishment or destruction of noxious insects. It is said there are no harmful insects iq hemp fields.

The Post says .—" Sir William Fox has announced himself as a candidate for the Rangitikei seat in Parliament, vacated by the resignation of Major Willis, and his address to the electors appears in Saturday's Advocate. Sir William Fox explains that hi? duty as a member of the West Coast Native Commission will oblige him to be absent from the district during the greater part of the time which must elapse before the day of election, and will prevent any personal canvass on his part. But he expressed a hope that his long residence in this district, and the fact that fur many years he possessed its confidence as its representative, justify him iv asking the electors to place him again in the same position. Sir William Fox invites the electors to meet him at Bulls on Thursday next and at Marton on Friday. Tha Eftgitikei Advocate indignantly denies that Major Major Willis has represented the constituency merely as a * warming pan ' for Sir William Fox, as alleged by certain Opposition journals." The Lanctt is often very good reading, even to the folks who have nothing the matter with them, and are not looking for " a parallel case." The last number describes a gentleman who swallowed his false teeth, and felt them in his pharynx (wherever that is ; my own medical knowledge ends with larynx). A doctor was sent for who introduced a probang, which touched the teeth (so the patient said), but he was afraid to proceed to extremities with the instrument, because they were described to him "as a complete set of molars." He then "bent a 10-inch military silver probe, and tried to hook the teeth up," but the spasms of the larynx were too severe, and the secretions from the parynx so excessive that these dredging operations had to be suspended. The patient began to get in extremis •, so presently another doctor was telegraphed for, who found the missing teeth on the top ,of a chest of drawers. This gentleman reporting on the matter very justly observes that this curious effect of imagination upon a strong and healthy man throws light on many a case of supposed hydrophobia. Marriatjo implies something more than two persons living together under one roof. It means mutual concession ; it moans mutual help ; it means supreme loyally to the combined interest of father, mother, and children; it means reverence for the happiness and sympathy for the trials of those whose happiness is dependent on love. '• She never told her love " that sue had been eating onions, but their chairs were, found a good wny apart the next morning. Something Else Strange, bub True. — A railway brake often, prevents a railway smash.