SPOILED THE TRIP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 3493, 24 April 1890, Page 3

SPOILED THE TRIP.

A Cleyer Arrest. Tho Registrar of tho Bankruptcy Court at Sydney litis juat spoiled ft nico littlo liip to Englund, projected by a youu gentleman named Walter Barringto Everest, Ho bad been 1 bankrupt £oinol2 months and iin order had been made for tho sQinpiaiy sequestration of the estate ; brt Everest, who seems to bo njauntyy«'ing mar, ignored the law, and, hating booked his pas-sago to England by that fine steamer the Ormuz, forgot all about tho dry bankruptcy proceedings, and looked forward with all tho confidence of youth and insolvency to the voyage home. However, the moat carefully Kid plans of the uncertificated often comes to gtief, and bo it was with Everest's. Two or threo days ago ho received a peremptory note, and a subpoena commanding him to attend before the Regintrar, Here was a fix. The Ormuz was about lo sail, and Everest wanted to be in England in time to Ece the Derby run; but he dared not. disregard tho Registrar's invitation. So be adopted a course Lwhjch he fondly hoped would extricate HSlnrfrorn his pressing difficulties. He

got a certificate signed by a Dr Rorke stating that be (Everest) would be Jjjjable to attend without great danger Rs he Buffered from nervous excitement. This waß pretty thin, but Evorest thought it good enough. The' next thing was to find a bearer of his message, Living at the same house with him was one Richardson, a bosom friend ot his, and this guileless person, Everest asked to deliver his noloto thojudge, Richardson rashly agreed, little dreaming of tho trouble in etqro for him. Ho walked gaily up to the Law Courts, and said he wanted to deliver a note. He was referred to the Registrar, who, after reading it, invited Mr Richardson to attend, and, as an intimate friend of the bankrupt, throw some light on the flighty youth's malady. In tho witness-box Mr Richardson mado rather a mess of it, Ho began by swearing that he had left Everest at North Shore that morning, but being pressed, not to say bullied,, he admitted that he had been with Mm that morning in Riley-strcet, Many

more questions were pitt to the reluctant Richardson, and lie came ffeme awful croppers in Attempting to Hragotiato th»t terribly steep fence—the sacred cause of truth. When counsel bad finished willi Richardson he was committed to prison for contempt of Court, His place in the witness box was filled by a friend of hii), named Robert Shillings, who gave shuffling answers, and proved himself capable of giving a bit of weight away to Ananias. He was adjudged as guilty of humbugging tho Court, and e also was committed to the cells, Just as ho was leaving there was a buzz in Court, and the bankrupt himself was marched in, A short conversation ensued, and.a. final stopper was put en the trip to Europe, at any rnto for the present, as the gay young fellow, who took things very coolly, was sent to durance vile for contempt also;.' The registrar, who by this time was probably tired of committing people to prison, ordered th,e bankrupt to beepmined by the Judge in Bank I'.uptcy, anil on eventful day in the z'Agistrar'B Court was brought to a —^lose'/