... MAKING A DEAD MAN BANKRUPT. The adjourned first meeting of the creditors of William Walker (i:eeeased), brewer, of Birchfield, has been held at Birmingham. Mr. Moore Bailey again represented the debtor, who committed suicide soon after filing his petiti ...

... dislocating his knee and injuring his side. Mr. Bullock ; You seem to have been very unfortunate. Was that the last accident? The Bankrupt: Oh, not at all. (A laugh.) Proceeding, he said that before he had recovered from the last accident an explosion of gas occurred ...

... expression rig opinion. ( Laughter. ) Mr. Cartwright said he did not think Mr. Taylor was far wrong, and unless the Board bankrupt there was no way out of their position except by paying their debts. If the present system continued very much longer they ...

... 1860, lesving him £lOOO a year, which he had been drawing since. It was payable to him during his life, unless he became bankrupt, and the trustees had now decided to pay it to his wife. In 1878 he purchased the Park-lane property near Doncaster for £30 ...

... the other day. A man receives a year from his father, and makes a year by the exercise of his profession; but he :s made bankrupt, and files accounts showing debts, and assets. Then there is the Cheshire lady who is reported to have squandered thousands ...

... of Joseph Entwine, a promoter of cornpanies,'has been opened by the District Official In the course of the examination the bankrupt admitted that for thirteen years he had lived by promoting public companies, but denied an allegation of the Official Receiver ...

... an ex-Mayor of Leominster, and . I..wn Councillor, and formerly in business as a wine merchant, but no w an adjudicated bankrupt, has been briught up at the Leominster Police•court, on remand, charged by the Treasury with fraudulently appropriating £240 ...

... country. A detective, however. ha i interfered with his plans, and George will return here to answer some questions in the Bankrupt, y Court. THE Afghan Boum lary Commission are tolerably weary of their task, judging from the remarks of a , irresp indent ...

... and Wales, inveked £3006 in a mortgage upon Barstow and Hartley' brickfields, near Pontefract, the ken afterwards becoming bankrupt. Vioe-Chancellor Bacon held that improper investment, sad on Saturday Lords Justices Cotton, Lindley, and Lopes affirming ...

... A FEMALE BANKRUPT. On Vdnesday afternoon, at Nantwich, Cheshire. before Judge Thomas Hughes, Miss Constance Maria Hesketh, of Mayfield, Tarpurley, sister of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart, again came before the Court.—Mr. John Davies, solicitor for Sir Thomas ...

... student. Unfortunately, his family failed at the time he was plucked at his examination, and he was now an undischarged bankrupt. He had tried to get a situation, but could not. The Recorder sentenced him to two months imprisonment with hard tabour. ...

... against him by his wife. The accounts upon which the bankrupt applied to pass show total debts £2178, of which £ll5O is unsecured, against assets £1498. In reply to the official solicitor, the bankrupt stated that the causes of his present failure were ...