A Lawyer Bankrupt.
HE ONLY MAKES £3 7s 4d A WEEK.
(from our own correspondent.) Napikb, last night. At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of George Edmund Lee, solicitor, the statement of bankrupt showed Secured creditors, £1630; unsecured, £7lO. Assets—book debts, £350, estimated to produce £100; household and office furniture and law books, £110; property, £2OO, besides that held by secured creditors.
The bankrupt stated that sines January this year his receipts as solicitor and barrister, averaged £3 7s 4d a week, on which he had to keep himself, wife, and seven children. He had filed in qonsequence of the Bank of New South Wales taming an execution on a judgment for £3O 10s, and threatening to sell properties comprised in their security. The creditors voted him household and office furniture to the extent of £llO, and left it to'the Assignee to realise on the estate in tl;o erdiug y course.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 366, 19 October 1889, Page 2
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152A Lawyer Bankrupt. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 366, 19 October 1889, Page 2
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