The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

SHAFTESBURY.

TEA Rov. Hoary HAS= Wood, reotor of HolweS,
bee boos Dominated rural dean of the mooed portion
of the deanery of Shaftesbury.

BILIMINSTER.

' Fox's Basaiturrcr.—At the Exeter disk**
court of bankruptcy, on Tosaday, before Mr. Cose-
Mja4oollllr Andrews, in Re Joseph Gundry For, gen-
tleman, Beaminster, time was a meeting for Isot I
examinatios and disoharge.—Mr. Hughes (for Mr.
Clarke) appeared for the estate, and Mr. Flood for
the bankrupt. —The oMoial 11111iMIND made the follow.
log report : to creditors an-
'soured, £1,936 Ss. 84.; \oldies ssourity, £lO (pro-
perty bold by than, £20); on bills discounted,
£174 ls. 114.; on aocounnodatioa bills, £5O 21. fid.;
on soak £106; on amount of eon,
Iffd.— told, £24649 70. fkl. Ansto—Doubt-
fel dub* AU .13a 14.? property given up, plate-
graphs as 4 "%wise is the hands of laroorabo, of

Beiiport, estimated value, £l2 125.; estimated
pins from from property in the hinds of creditor, £lo—
£92 12e. Deficiency, £262615.. 6d. Bonk-
rapt's expenditure for the support of himself and
family, for the year treoeding his bankruptcy, is
stated to have been £2OO, and for the previous year
£250. The amounts owing to unsecured creditor'
are partly vouched by bankrupt's pipers. The sums
of £670 and £651 le. 3d are entered as due for cash
and interest; the remaining sums are due for boom
and personal expenses, and have (with two or three
exoeptions) been contracted during the past three
years. The secured creditor holds • gold watch of
the estimated value of £2O, as security for £lO. Mr.
.1. De Game, of Guernsey. is entered by the bank-
rupt as a debtor for £3.13 131. Id., being the balance
of a aum of £5OO for cash and discount (for which
bankrupt bolds a promissory note), after deductine
the amount of three bills on which Mr. De Gerrie is
liable, and which bankrupt has discounted. The
bankrupt states that he sold his famiture shortly
before his bankruptcy to Captain Digital'. in wee
-
duration of two bills Myea he hint to the Wilts and
Dorset Bank, amounting to .C 573 the amount bank-
rupt was indebted to them; but upon the furniture
having been atiertained to be worth only £5OO, the
bank handed back to Captain Dittom his bill for £73,
and received instead • sum of £l2O, the proceeds of
bankrupt's contingent reversionary interest in the
sum of £196, which interest was, shortly before the
bankruptcy, sold to Mr. Joseph Gundry, of Bridport,
for that sum. The bankrupt states that his wife is
entitled under her marriage settlement to an annuity
of £2OO, sad to other property on her father's death.
It wee provided by this settiameet that in owe the
bankrupt survived his wife, he should receive £2OO
per annum for his life; but Its sates that this was
disposed of on his former bankruptcy, in 1847.—Mr.
Hughes having stated that Mr. De Carrie had written
that the note in the posited= of bankrupt was
merely an aocommodation bill, the bankrupt was ex-
amined in refereoos to his transactions with Mr.
De Gerrie. Re said the bills were drawn by Mr.
D• Genie, which he endorsed and discounted at the
Wilts =ea Dorset Bank. sending the cash to Mr. De
Genie' . *lto gave him a promissory ride. When the
bills were diebesoured be gays the bank • bill of
sale on all his elects, sad when they premed for pay-
ment on their behalf be sold the "Meets to his soo-in.
, law, Captain Dittnas.—The ease was adjourned for
I further investigation to February 29.