MEETING OF CREDITORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3617, 18 September 1890, Page 2

MEETING OF CREDITORS.

■■■-' V? \:y ..' —h; '■•s►■ . '■ •" first 'meeting of 'creditors in the estate of itioharcl J." Fitton, flax-, miller, bankrupt,!. ;:wa3-held in the old Courthouse at noon to-day, about a dozen creditors being present. The deputy Official Assignee, Mr W, B, Ohennells, presided, ' Mr Bunny appeared for tha Official Assignee, and Mr Pownall for the debtor.'

The, Official Assignee, read a tatement of the assets and liabilities.

Hiohard J. Fitton, examined by Mr Bunny, stated' that the 'acoounts produced were as correct a statement as he could give at the time. ";. This showed an estimated surplus ol £896. • He had put down the; .whole of his liabilities in the statement excepting £3OO, which was owing his brother. He had £3OO a year coming irom Home, in half-yearly remittances. His next remittance of £176 he expected towards the end oi October or the beginning of Novenv l.ber. This amount was left under

bia fatlier'sVUl. He was willing fof this to go towards paying,his debt. He was indebted to a Mr Scales, of Wellington, for £6OO advanced on flax, which was not shown in the statement. Against this amount there were 210 bales of flax which had-not been sold. Filed his schedule in consequence of a distress Heintended to pay every creditor twenty shillings.-in the I pound-.with" interest. Could not say whether his flax business was 1 paying, Had .onlf received one retutn; ; yHatl,■'no.other property. exceptfng r that shown in the state-" inent. Received: his remittance by draft on the Bank of Australasia. Was"willing to give the, Official Assignee authority to. receive £IOO whenliis next remittance arrived. Was indebted to the Masterton Building-Society to the amount of £250, ' '.;

In answer -to Mr Pownall, the Official Assignee stated that the sum of £45 was owing to the Greytown BuiHing Society. Mr Pownall said he proposed to ask for an allowance from the income of the debtor for him to live upon. The income could not be'alienated from the estate and would come at rogular intervals. The debtor had been compelled to fib in consequence ot distraint. 'He had got in a fix, and was using- the only means of getting out of the same. It was for the creditors to' say what amount should be deducted.

Mr Bunny said that at the presenl time the suggestion of Mr Pownall was premature. They should wail until the 1 assets were realised.

Mr Pownall agreed that it might >e for the best to realise the assets

Mr Renali said he saw nothing for the creditors to be dissatisfied with. If the debtor paid twenty shillings in the pound and interest that was all they wanted. He wished everybody had done the same, and he would be in abotterposition to-day, (Laughtor). The proceedings then terminated,

Lwgvorm In the TOr&r&ja. The prevalence of lungworra in the Wairarapa having considerably affected the sheep in that district, the Government recently instructed Mr McOlean, M.E.C.Y.S., to report upon it. Mr Mexican's report is a document of special interest to sheepfarmers generally and wo therefore reproduoe the substance of it, Hiving examined affected stock and country, Mr McLean says that until pastoralists acquaint themselves more olosely with the lifo hißtory of the lungworra and recognise thatyear by year the pest will increase its ravages according to the locality and the suitableness of the season, but little benefit can acorue from any recom-

mendation ho may make, Dealing with remedies, the report proceeds aa follows I—"There is no doubt that where lungworm is prevalontthe best remedy of all is to plough up and crop the infected area forone or two seasons. The substitution of cattle

for] sheep for a season will also go a very long way toward cleaning a country, as the lungworm of sheep does not affect cattle, and vice versa. Then, again, there is the Australian method of shutting up

the infected area for some months, and then firing the growth that has taken place. Where owners cannot or will not adopt any of the above methods, it only remains for them to

take all care that their lambs are

in good - condition before and. at tho time 'of weaning, and thus render their systems less liable to

fall an easy prey to the disease, This, I need hardly say, can only be attained by good feed and pu-e water in liberal quantity, nnd general good management, In the country I have been examining I cannot too strongly recommend tbe allowance of n free

supply of salt from the 'middle ol

summer right through the autumn. For this purpose 1 would prefer to use infsrior common salt, commonly known as Liverpool salt, placed in troughs about the paddooks. . Eock salt, though infinitely better than no

salt at all, is too liablo to injure the teeth of lambs and thus render them unfit for turnips later on in the season, Another advantage Liverpool salt possesses is that any other medicament may be incorporated with it, and for this purpose I know of nothing better than the following mixture .'—Liverpool salt 100 parts, chlorate of rotash 10 parts, sulphate of iron 8 Jparts, Lambß provided with this mixture will render themsolves worm proof. I am often asked if drenching lambs is any good, and am forced to reply in the negative, for I am of opinion that unless in tlio hands of a competent and careful man much unnecessary pain and serious damage is too often inflicted on animals mostly in a delijate stato of

health, by the injudicious mixing and administration of the various drugs ÜBed. {fan; owner, is of opinion that he ought to drench his lambs, let it be done two or three times early in the year, and advisedly, with turpentine and milk thoroughly incorporated. It is worse than useless .to wait till such time as the hoggets are coughing ; the object of drenching should be to cause tho expulsion of the worm before jt has gained an entry into the j lungs or blood stream. The lambs

should be carefully handled, the mouth gently opened-by an assistant, and foe medicine slowly glowed fa fell iftto the mouth ja"'sder that, the animal may have time to swallow it, and nomas' one .too often sees, the mouth roughly torn open by one man while'another as roughly squirts the medicine out of a syringe, He not entering I s g"i'¥ 9 s intended, but naming direct into the larynx, setting" up a Violent fit of coughing, and in the end causing severe bronchial disfurbimce.'' In conclusion Mr McLean ' espressos an opinion that if Qvynora. attend to tJniso directions it may bo cdnGdcntly expected 'bat liingworm will bo reduced to a'minimuin ( _iV , ,ir i f(m«f l