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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 35, 9 January 1884, Page 3

Business Notices. 1 j.Ta.7’’ s”' LT ’ c '~ i PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST (Studio—’Gladstone Road, next Mr. Ainlabie’i, Butcher), Ii now prepared to execute highly-finished Photograph! at prices most moderate. Views of Geutlenien’a Residences, Groups, and Children taken successfully by the most recent Instantaneous Process. bB5 Miscellaneous, IP in the Bankruptcy, of . oscar BEYER, A DEBTOR. I THE UNDERSIGNED, the Trustee in } the Estate of the above-named, Debtor, hereby summons a meeting of the Creditors in the said Estate, to be holden at the Courthouse, Gisborne, on THURSDAY, the tenth day of January next, at three o’oiook in the afternoon, for the paxpose of paesing’ a resolution to discharge the Debtor forthwith. WILLIAM A FRIAR, 906 Trustee. TETT S ’ ' TA I A i’l ES , -L-J J-Z . ' Tl 188 4 , In all sizes and nil bindings, for private, commercial, and professional uses. These have been Imported direct to Special Order, Prices extremely moderate at Jkim SNYDER BROWNE'S Bookselling ErtabUshment, Next Txlxphone office. ONE SHILLING, TWO SHILLING, EIGHTEENPENNY, TWO SHILLING, And HALF-CROWN CABLES, Coneieting of an immense variety ef Toys, Ornaments, and Fancy Goods, at MBS. A. M. BBOWNE'S Next Herald office. 890 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.' "KTOTICE is hereby given that the Part. v nership hitherto existing between GEORGE GBEIG SMITH and MELVILLE BABINGTON SMITH, both of Poparae, Poverty Bay, Sheep-farmers, carrying on business under the style of “ Smith Bbos.” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. Dated this third day of January, 1884. MELVILLE BABINGTON SMITH. GEOBGE GBEIG SMITH. Witness— Fbxdx. J. Shilton, Merchant, Gisborne. 894

TO MY CREDITORS AND THE PUBLIC. NOT one of the three grounds set forth in the Herald of the sth instant Is the [round on which assent to my discharge has been refused. Not one of those three was even proposed on the 2nd instant, mush less carried, as the reason for refusing my discharge. I was prepared at that meeting to answer all questions put to me, but no question about any of the many matters laid to my charge by the Herald, or affecting the propriety of my discharge, was put to me, ana the only accusation made against me was Mr. Boylan's, that I had improperly paid the contractor. Then Mr. Shelton said that I was incompetent to trade, and the creditors ought to prevent me from trading, and that he would, therefore, move, “ That in consequence of my reckless trading,! be not discharged for the present.” That resolution was passed by the only four creditors present, exclusive of Mr. Graham, who was iff the chair—namely, Messrs. Bennett, Boylan, Shelton, end Moore. Neither they nor anyone else intimated to me that that was a ground requiring explanation by me. They had never accused me of it, or mentioned any alleged instance of ».< Mr. Boylan did say that Mr. Bennett and himseu and some others of the creditors had, a few days before, held a private meeting about m*. . That meeting wai not advertised. I was' not at it, Whether the string of matters requiring ox. planation sat forth in the Herald were drawn up at that meeting Ide not know. Whether it was so er not, the explanation was never asked of me, either before the public meeting of the 2nd inst. or at it. The article in the Herald would lead anyone to believe that the many accusations in ft had been made at the public meeting of the find inst.. and I failed o answer them to the creditors' satisfaction; but it is not so. As to the accusations themselves, Mr, Bennett, one of the trustees, said, at the meeting of the find inst., that they had got in ail shillings in the pound, and I had greatly contributed to that result, and had got in the book-debts very well. I cannot say that I have never had to sell without profit, for I once bought some maiso, and, hougn I sold a third of it al a profit of £lO, I haa to sell the rest at a loss of £6O; but, with that exception, I can safely say that in no instance did I ever sell without profit. The figures about Carr's estate are all wrong. The £6OO ought eithek to be £lB7 or £9lBl* the £BO ought to be £65; the £l9O ought to be £79. The facts are that I bought from Carr’* trustee £lB7 of book-debts and £76 of promissory notes for £45. I thereupon reasonably dealt with £79 of those debts a* my own. When, however, the Are which ruined me pre. vented me from paying the £65, and I would not give Carr's trustee a preference over my other creditors, he threatened to prosecute me criminally for having dealt with the £79 al my own unless I paid him £BO. Some friends of mine were then kind enough to help me in my distress, by binding themselves to pay the £BO so exacted from me. Thus my creditors have benefltted, for the £79 received by me was paid away in due course of bueinteis before I failed. Thereby I lessened my liabilities by the same amount. On the other hand, the £BO exacted by Carr’s trustee has not, and will not be, paid out of my bankrupt estate, but has been paid by my friends, and will have to be repaid to them by me, and I shall never get £5 from those book-debts which Carr's trustee assigned in consideration of the £BO he exacted. As to the land which I sold to my brother, I sold and transferred it to him about the middle of 1885. It thenceforth stood in the Land Transfer Registry in his name; therefore, there was not and could not be any deception. It was not till April, 1888, nearly a year after the transfer, that the loan from the Borough Sinking Fund was applied for, and only a week afterwards the mortgage was executed by my brother—not by me. It is impossible that there could have been any deception. Ml. NoUn wka the solicitor. It is quite wrong to say that he understood that I was the borrower. I did not tall into insolvent circumstances for more than three months afterwards. It was the fire of the 2nd August, 1833, that ruined me. I have never withheWinfonnation from the trustees, or been backward in giving it them. On the contrary, I have answe.ed, fully and fairly, every question they Rave,put to Jne. The only time when they ever asked me for information was about twompnthsago. They invited me to Mr. Bennett’s office, and there, in the presence of Mr. Shelton and Mr. Thelwall, at some length questioned me, among other things, for whom I ha‘d that flay bought some tallow. After.questioningme for a long time, they put me on my oath, and then pursued their questions aud wrote my answers down. I freely answered every question they put to me, and they have never since applied to me tor any further information. D. M. 088. Gisborne, 7th January, 1884. 908