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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1335, 24 March 1883, Page 2

A meeting of the creditors of Mr 0. Madsen was held at the R.M. Courthouse Masterton, on Thursday afternoon, when about a dozen orediiors, representing laborers; sawmillers, storekeepers, news pap.erß.&c.,werepresent. MrM. Oaßelberjj .was voted to the oliair, and elected Creditors' Truatee. The liabilities were filed at £39ol7s,aud'ihe assets at £352 13s 9d. Of tho liabilities £175 were secured. The principal creditors are, unsecured ; McGregor Bros, timber, £42 12 6d; MV Oaaelberg & Co., £37; F. Harrison, £2o;' McEwen, £l6 Is; Eapp & Hare, £9; and several sums for labor, &c. v The secured liabilities were—Permanent Investment andLoan.Asaiiciation £125; and Dr Beard £SO, The debtor was submitted to a .aearchinK;exaininatiori by the Trustee bbto a transaction with Ins father-in law in'' exchanging a house'and 60 aore section in Mauriceville: for, a house and | acre section in Masterton, and also as to. what had become of money received from the County Councils f»r several laree' contracts. The debtor's explanation of these' points, and, as to : a former partnership between himself and brother,, did not appear very'satisfactory,.to the' Creditors, and the Trustee informed him that a full .enquiry,would;be: made, into!hJß/affairß. The debtor's splicitbr, Mr : BeaVd,"fiaid;he could' offer 5s in the pound,' but jthe Trustee said that considering the estate showed about 18s in the pound he could not recommend the creditors to accept tho .offer. , The debtor promise'd to g'ueall the information in his power as .to the estate and'the meeting

r J)lio gift auction at Oniteiion ou Thursday lu assist in liquidation the debt on iha Wesleyan Church there realised a bW of .£27. i : ' The Carterton Rifle learn oame by the mid day train to lire in the match with the MasteitonMes this afternoon, Tendeis are invited by Mr E Wrigley for additions to a stoio and dwelling house at Ekotaliutin.

Tlio Masterton Highway Board in auotlioi column jivei notice of a poll to be taken for the various loads piopused to bo oonsti noted under the Roads and Bribges Constiucton Act, Messis Lowes and lonia advertise a salo uf furniture seized uudei a distress warlaut fur Weduesduy next at 2 p.in,

It 18 notified that the offertories m St. Matthew's Ohuich, Masterton, to-morrow will bo handed to the incumbentmaccordance with the regulations of the general synod.

Mr William Bey, M.D, Mast, Surg. Uaiv. Aoerd. is gazetted a public vaccinator fur the diatiict of Uuiteiton, and Sergeant Henry MoAidle is also gazetted as Lispeit ut of Weights and Measiues for W. iranpa Bast and West Counties,

Messrs Chas. Pownall and Co, Scriveners, Wellington, reuurt that negotiations absorbing a considerable amount of outside capital have been oonoluded on. mortgage investment during the last, niuuih, the genoral rate ruling on landed' estate only, for nums excess i-f 11000' seven per cent. Securities on township properties siill command ihe higher rate, from eight tQ nine per eeni, iha supply of money offering on these transactions being very limited; We are unable : to quote any amelioration in banking stringency, but as the Victorian Four Million L'laii has, since our last ''report been udceßsfully floated, the Australian market will be much relieved, and combined with the low quotation for money at home, we shall look for considerable modifications taking place of the existing piessurej', detrimental alike to the trade aud : com-, lueice of the country, Mr Aitken uf Wellington, will conduct the services to morrow in the Masterton Presbyterm Church. A meeting of the Public Works Comuiitiee of the Wairarapa'East County Council takes place to-day. -. A meeting of creditors in the estate of of Mr J. W. Leahy takes place this Lfternoou m the B.M. Courthouse Masterton.

The offices of Messrs 0, F. Gawith, A. R. Bunny, and Beard & Grey, solicitors, will be closed till the 2nd of April, On Thursday last a witness Mr. Beaufun kept the Masterton It M. Court awaiting his arrival fur a quarter of a'ti hour and was fined'Uvonty shillings for bis unpnnctnality. ■

Messrs B. A, Gardener announce .that the event of the season is the great sale at the Criterion store, Carterton, which lasts for twenty-one days.

The following interesting extracts will be found oil our fourth page. " Supposed corpse come to life,"" The speed and aize of Atlantic Waves," " Water Bicycles," " The jury system in America," and miscellaneous paragraphs. The outcome of the dispute between Mr Genimoll, the Southland school inspector, and Mr Gurr and his son and assistant in the Inveraargill Central School, is that Mr Gurr, sen., who has resigned, has been found guilty by the Euuoatiun Board of a dereliction of duty and censured ; while thrco months' notice has been «ivon to Mr Gurr jun,, of the terniinatiiin of his engagement, Professor Wiggins storm has not eventuated, Tho fateful ides of March have passed with nothing more important than a iwelcomo down-pour of rain, welcomo to the parched country and welcomo to the drapers, who hope to sell their stock of garments suited fur such weather. We aro quite willing to help our customers to provide against a " rainy day," by offering onr "Satnpre Secco" cloak, ■ which is a most useful and necessary girment, thoroughly waterproof, and very light in weight, to be had in Navy blue and black and in all sizes. Each cloik is provided with a neat natohel of tho same material to carry it when not I required to bo worn. We would also invite inspectors of some rsally- choice fur. lined and ■ circular broche cloaks, edged with fur and heed with quilted silk, Wo have a fewcharming imitation and real seal skin jackets ia length from 3b' to 45 inches that have only to be scon to bo coveted at Tamos Smith's TeAro House Wellington.,-[Awe.] '