WELLINGTON.
This day,
In bis report on Mr Waring Taylor?s estate, the Official Assignee submits that Mr Taylor has brought himself under the penal clauses of the Bankruptcy Act. An Atscondor Arrested. Poppens, the defaulting publican, was arrested at Melbourne (not at Hobart, as reported). He was adjudicated a bankrupt on Monday last, and was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued on Tuesday charging him with having left the place with more than £20 in his possession. Before this, Mantel, a traveller for Mr Cheymol, wine merchant, who was the petitioning creditor, went to Sydney by the Wakatipu to try and intercept Poppens, but he only arrived ia Sydney the day after Poppens' telegram was Bent to Melbourne. Poppens was arrested with £650 on him. He offered £500 and the costs of arrest to let him go, but as this was compounding a felony, it was not accepted. A constable leaves by the Tarawera tonight to bring him back, he is supposed to have twelve or thjrteen hundred pounds with him.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 2
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172WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 2
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