AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3763, 19 January 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day

Lingard's Bankruptcy.

At to day's sitting of the Supreme Court in Banco, Mr Browning, solicitor, applied on behalf of Mr W. H. Liugnrd for his discharge from bankruptcy. Mr Hesketh, for the provisional trustee, asked for a postponement of the matter, as from information which had just come to haud there was reason for believing that fraud and gross conspiracy and perjury had been associated with the proceedings, and a vast amount of information as to assets, etc., kept back. The Judge decided that at any rate insufficient notice of application for discharge had been given the creditors, and therefore ordered that fresh notice should be given. I ingard, Searrell and DeLias are to be examined before the trustee to-morrow.

A Lively Meeting. A lively scene took place at a meeting of the Wailemata County Couucil to-day, over a record in the minutes, to which some objected. An irregular and boisterous discussion, lasting over an hour, ensued. One Councillor said another was ignorant of all business forms and methods of procedure, to which the person addressed made an offensive retort, referring to his opponents as " long eared donkeys/ &c.