Meeting of Creditors.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 550, 30 December 1890, Page 3

Meeting of Creditors.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of G. F. Henderson was held yesterday afternoon. Present : Messrs Cannon, Dickson, Piesse, Joyce, Watson and Lange. The debtor slated: —l filed through pressure from one o> my creditors—H. Cannon. I was pressed for £7 Is. I have no assets whatever except a few Look debts, which are of no value—a debt due by Gannon’s estate (£27 6s 6;i), and £5 7s 6d book debts. Air Cannon said that if 1 did nut fi;e I would spend my Christmas in gaol. 1 filed about seven years ago. Si nee then I have got into debt nearly £340, about £5O a year, At the i me of my last bankruptcy no person took the trouble to prove, but since than I have paid some i ff. Rusbbrook’s account was partially due before my last bankruptcy, after which I gave him a promissory note for the amount, and was then sued, being advised by the lawyers to confess judgment. When I incurred these debts I was in hopes of getting some money from the old country. I did not get any money from Home, nor do 1 expect to get any. Several of these liaoniiieß were caused through my wife’s illness. She was then drawing money from home. I had to pay one iitm alone, £67, io take my wife to Auckland. Dr Pollen received .£4O out of that am .'Unt, Mr Gannon never owed me so much as £6O at one time. In reply to Mr Cannon debtor said: You told other people that you would put me in gaoi for Chnsimas, fo I inferred you would, I sent an agent, on about 20th November, asking you i© allow the matter to stand over fur another month. I also sent you £3 and a promissory note for four months at the same time. I have received about £5O from Home since my last bankruptcy. Myself and Wife have received about. £B5O from Home—about £5O a year. 1 have also received two boxes of clothing, one worth £7 and the other £lO. The last remittance I received was £lO, and I do not expect any more, as my father is id. The money 1 have received has gone to pay my debts. On an average 1 received about £1 to £1 5a a week. I received £7 as scrutineer for Mr Kedy, from Messrs R-es and Day. I paid Bub Wibiams £2, money borrowed, out of that amount, and the rest I spent in clothes for myseif and child, I have no furniture whatever; what there is is willed by my wife to the ouitd. The amount due to Mr Devery ia for coach fares. By the Assignee ; I will offer 5s in twelve months, and the Waianae uf 15s in auother , twelve mouths, providing I am allowed to proceed to England to get. the money, Mr Cannon: I go not believe a word of it, I propose that the Assignee apply to the Postmaster and receive all English letters addressed to debtor or his daughter, as I am under the impression that money will shortly be received. As fur sending him Home, we will do that • he will have a trip Home at our expense. There was no seconder to the motion. Mr Cannon said that the amount due to him was, with the exception of 2s, all for cash lent to help the debtor in time of trouble.