AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4380, 17 January 1883, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

Yesterday. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Smith, R.M., A. Olsen, G, E. Brown, and H.: Pearson were charged with Btealinjf a quantity.bf.goods, yalue £35, the property of Captain Auld, from the British ship Famenoth, ,on or about the 30th NoTember. On the application of Sergt. White, a remand for eight-days was granted..; . . n . v The final meeting of the creditors of Balph Wylde Brown,, gentleman, of Paroell, took place in tbe Supreme Court this morning; when the jtrustee, Mr Mac* ffarlane, submitted his report. In it he mentioned that the debtor accounted for the imolrency by stating that he h,ad lost hearily in Thames mining specn* lations, and in consequence he had to negotiate 1 mortgages upon his property; that he had been lifing upon monies occasionally receired from his brothers and sisters in England ; Hhat be had been compelled to allow his.housebold expenses to accumulate in the hope that by a remittance from home he should be able, to pay them, off; that then be borrowed money and drewcupon his brother, trusting that he would meet the draft, as on previous occasions ; that the rate of interest charged him was enormous that he bad had to pay £195 for a sum of. £G00; and that ho would not have filed bad not a, creditor taken,out a judgment, summons against him. The liabilities j amounted to £549,18s 6d, of which the , largest item was a sum of £325 10s owing to "John Abbot,-Commission Agent,": and the assets were set down as £400, the. trustees howerer regarded them as worth about £120. The creditors expressed dissatisfaction with the state of defendants affairs.