The Chief Justice in Napier

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 587, 26 March 1891, Page 2

The Chief Justice in Napier

ADMIRALTY AND BANKRUPTCY COURTS.

MR BBABSEY GETS HJS DISCHARGE.

(smut TO THE STANtUDD.) NaFIBB, last night. The Chief Justice held a eiiting of the Adtuii'aliy Court ,ea'»rdsy and to-da.v, to try ao action by the owners of the Aburiri and Fanny, e:earners, against the New Zealend Shipping Co., for a.lvage of the ship Rsngii ikei in No»rtnber la.t Pi i niffs claimed £iiooo, while defend...ib paid £3OO into Court, aUeging that wee sufficient fur the service, rend.red. The Court sat late to.nignt, taking the evident!?. It ii understood ths law pointe • ill *>e argued Io Wellington, where udgra.ot will bs given.

Hla Honor held a sitting of the Bankruptcy Qoijrt |bi< morning before renuming the salvage care in the Admiralty Court, In the care of Willoughby Bra’sey His Honor giamed a diechanc, but sai l he did not know what ha would bare done if there had been any I'ppoai'ion. The creditors who attended the meeting seemed to be in favor of the banhrupt’e discharge, and be did not bob how He could do otherwise, but it was very unr.ii.faotory that a person ohould have resorted to the Bankruptcy Court, and lot the matter remain for eeverai years, and then iuour a considerable amount more debt and go again to the Court without having completed the first bankruptcy. The discharge would be subject to the payment of preferential olaims amounting to £lO. His Honor directed thkt if the (jisborne creditor* did not take proceedings to recover the assets within fourteen days the Napier Assignee might distribute the assets to the Napier ereduom