... upon the furniture comprised under the bill of sale. The matter did not go into liquidation, and he was subsequently made a bankrupt; and on the 28th February, 1878, the debt mentioned was proved at the County Court. Mr. Pulford has not to the present time ...

... a roll of newspaper cuttings, forty-six yards long, being a year's failures up to September It contained 1,112 bankrupts, Scotch bankrupts, winding-up notices, and 14018 liquidations?a total ot 16.823. Some of Lord Salisbury's utterances were severely ...

... 080, and there securities amounting to claimed the liquidators of the Glasgow Bank. The sitting had reference only to the bankrupt Morton, and it was stated on his behalf that he had not been able to complete certain accounts embracing the period from ...

... accompanied by his wife, he arrived Barbadoes. was arrested under a warrant the Colonial Secretary being a fraudulent absconding bankrupt. was stripped, searched, and treated almost as a criminal, not being informed first why was arrested. was prison for month ...

... . Mr. Soarle was for the petitioner, and from 1 er statement it appeared that her busband was co il merchant, but became bankrupt while at Melton Mowbray, after which they went to live St. lolens. From that time had no employment, and used to sell her ...

... Vendi'.me Column has just died at Paris, whither he had been allowed to come temporarily on a safe conduct. After becoming bankrupt through an action brought against him for piracy in reproducing a design, ha was a violent speaker the Belleville clubs, ...

... confirming tbe scheme of settlement the joint affairs of Heugb, Balfour, and Co., merchants, Manchester r.nd London, who became bankrupt a year ago, with liabilities of more than £1,000,000, but the proofs on whose estate have been reduced to £250,000. Under ...

... Court, yesterday, .■Wilham Henry Connor, .solicitor, was summoned for ai ling and abetting his father, William Connor, a bankrupt (who lately carried business in l.lanchester as banker, under the style of the Northern Bank), concealing a for from his ...

... ALLEGED FRAUD BY BANKRUPT BREWER. At Halifax, yesterday, John Rhodes, brewer, New Pellon, who filed a petition for liquidation on tbe 19th September, was charged under the Debtors Act with fraud upon his creditors. The prosecution was ordered by the Treasury ...

... case being culled, Mr. Willoughby, on behalf of the trustee, said that the bankrupt was too ill to attei d. lie had bad medical certificate sent him to account for the bankrupt's non-attendance. Mr. Hutchinson said he must oppose that. The Registrar asked ...

... had committed, and asked with virtuous indignation why he should suffer for having tried to make money while successful bankrupts,cunning speculators, and fraudulent directors were allowed to prey in safety upon the public. The thief's logic was defective ...

... medical certificate stating that he could not attend. One of the creditors' representatives said he did not believe that the bankrupt was ill, or, if he was, it was in consequence of drinking to excess. It was stated that the squire's income had been £4,000 ...