THE ELLIOTT BANKRUPT ESTATE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9141, 9 May 1908, Page 7

THE ELLIOTT BANKRUPT ESTATE.

adjourned meeting. ?per Press Association. Wellington, May 8. ' The adjourned meeting of the ■creditors in the bankrupt estate ox A O. Elliott (who is missing) was held to-day, when the Assignee.peported that some of the creditors had placed the position before the nolice, and they were now actively incmiring into the charges made aglinst the bankrupt. He anticipated that the reports would be in the hands of the Commisaioner of Police that day, and Mr Dinme would decide whether steps would be taken by the Crown or whether the creditors would have to move in their own behalf. The police would not send the reports to him; the reports would be sent to each of the creditors who had interested themselves in the matter. That was the nosition up to the present so far. There was no authority which empowered him to interfere and bring the bankrupt back unless it could be shown that he had taken away more than £2O of the creditors money, .and he (the assignee) was Provided with sufficient funds to take the necessary proceedings. He bad done everything in his power to ascertain all the facts, and if ho could secure the information required he would la it a was decided that Duncan and a lady clerk of Elliott and Duncan be examined on Monday morning, the creditors to meet again sitter the examination.