... appeared for the trustee: Mr. A. Beiyfus for creditors; and Mr. H. Colyer for the bankrupt. In answer to Mr. Aldridge. the official solicitor. the debtor said that had been bankrupt on three previous occasions. The first of these was in 1831, but be had not ...

... BANKRUPT PENSIONER. When John Byfleld, seventy-two, old-age pensioner, of Cnttell-road, Small Heath, sought aiichurge from bankruptcy in Birmingham County-court, it was pointed out that unless over were made toward the liquidation of hia £172 liabilities ...

... BANKRUPT'S CONFESSION. At Grimsby Bankruptcy Court a debtor named John Win. Northeote, a grocer, whose examination had been closed, came forward and volunteered a statement that a day or two before the official receiver took possession of his premises ...

... BANKRUPTS IN CATHAY. Bankrupt. lies never take place in China or Japan. as they entail execution at once. No bank failure or bankruptcy has occurred In China for the past tottO year!, when a bank failure brought forth an edictstill in force—that on all ...

... BANKRUPTS ADVENTURE. When Adam Matthews, a welLlinown South Wales draper and exhibitor of prise bones, appeared for his public examination at the Swansea Bankruptcy-court on Friday the gross liabilities were stated to amount to nearly £12,500, and book ...

... BANKRUPT BARONET. At Kingston-on-Thamee Sir Edward Robert Murray, Baronet, was charged on a with obtaining credit to the extent of XIX) and upwards from Messrs. Spiers and Pond at the Southampton Hotel, Surbiton, without disclosing the fact that he was ...

... BANKRUPT MARQUIS. Percy Sholto Douglas, Marquis of Queensberry, attended at the London Bankruptcycourt for his public examination before Mr. Registrar Brougham. His statement of affairs showed his liabilities £2,760 and assets nil. The debtor stated that ...

... BANKRUPT'S RUSK. After selling his baker's business at Harieeden for £440, George Ralph gars Lou each to kis wife and daughter, and banded the latter £lOO to keen for him. Re then paid some, and filed • isettitien in betiktcy'.••• For not disclosing the ...

... the receiver. In other words, any debtor who becomes bankrupt may have the whole of his correspondence ransacked and read by the bankruptcy official. Is not this rather insinuating that a bankrupt is a criminal? THE VOLUNTEERS' CAMP GRANT. The Comman ...

... TWO THOUSAND BANKRUPTS. An 'extraordinary state of things was disclosed at King's Lynn County-court, when' Judge Mulligan, H.C., said that there seemed to be a great number of undischarged bankrupts in the district, and it was desirable that there should ...

... BANKRUPT RECTOR EMIGRATES. At a 'fleeting of the creditors of the Rev. William neury recently Rector of Staple.. ten, Brigtnl, uud lately resident at Cheltem, the Official Receiver explained that the debtor, who is tifty-tive years of age, had gone Lo ...

... EARL'S BROTHER BANKRUPT. The Hon. Randolph de Vere Capel, a younger, bmther of the present Earl at Essex, appare d . in the London Bankruptcy Coait for his pu blic examination. His liabilities were eta to be £2,808, and the assets eomprised a bad book ...