LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.
(by telegraph—own correspondent.)
Auckland, Wednesday. A largely-attended meeting of the creditors of Arthur Thomas Eyre, merchant of Queen-street, but now out of the colony, and an adjudged bankrupt, was held at the Assignee's office this afternoon. The Official Assignee read a statement by William Bruce Fordyce, who had been a cleric of the bankrupt. The last he saw of Eyre was on the 17th October. The Assignee said the stock was valued at £400, and the book debts about £400. Steps were authorised for realising tde estate. The Directors of the Northern Steam Shipping Company held a meeting this morning to consider matters connected with the proposed terms of settlement of the existing dispute with the Seamen's Union, but no definite decision has beon arrived at, one or two points being still undecided. The Horticultural Society agreed to allot space to the Bee-keeper's Association at the next. show. . . The Operative Boot-makers Association have resolved that the men on strike at McArthur and Co.'s factory should not return to work. The employers will close all their factories, and declare a general lock out.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2548, 8 November 1888, Page 2
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185LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2548, 8 November 1888, Page 2
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