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INSOLVENT COURTMonday, 1st May.In rc John liyng.— Margaret Dixon being sworn and examined by .Mr. Bullcu, one of the trustees, deposes—I was servant to John Byng; know there were good curtains in the insolvent’s house, which were removed on the day of the first adjournment of the creditors, to the first house; they were removed for the ostensible purpose of getting them altered, which was done, but never returned to the house; I am nware Mrs. Byng took away a kettle and dclf things; to the best of my belief, she also took away two or three table cloths; Mrs. Byng paid Mrs. Bowers most part of the ten pounds she borrowed from her—some of it since Byng’s sequestration; I think there was about five pounds before, am! nearly the remainder after. I was told by the little girl who went away with Mrs. Byng, thnt she, Mrs. Byng, had concealed a table cloth under her clothes in order to carry it off. The name of thnt girl is Jane Mooney.Martin Tracy deposes—I nm aware that all the creditors arc complaining of the trustees ; my grounds of complaint arc thnt at the second meeting of ere-ditors, we all agreed thnt the house was to be sold to the best advantage, and in the shortest space of time possible; I heard the trustees were oficrcd £’100 by Callaghan for the premises; it was offered to M'JDonough; lam aware tlmt M'Donough heard him.Arthvr Kemmis and Co.—Debts Proved.—W. II. Ynldwin, £l5; rent; Charles i.aiug for the Grazier’s Company, £‘71 Us.; Arthur Rankin, for Robert Turnbull, £**2fiB Ss. lOd.; Jolm Bcimell, £TG7 10s. 7d.; Robert Atkinson, three bills of exchange, £91 18s. Id.; Asldiurst and Co., balance of account, £‘1-11 Is. .'Id.; cslntc of M. Holmes, £*.‘1 18s.In rc II. A\ Carrington.—P. Ilinton, bill of costs, £*8 9s. lOd.
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Melbourne Port Phillip Herald
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Fri, May 05, 1843
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