The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-25
CAPTAIN REID FAILS TO ACCOUNT
Matter Before the High
Courts in FIJI.
Gunboat Said to Have Been Sent to
Tanning Sides Must
Appear in March.

George B. Greig, mentioned in the
following article taken from the Fiji
Times, November 7th, is well known
in Honolulu. He has relatives here,
and the article, therefore, will be read
with interest by all of the old resi-
dents of the Islands. Mr.. Greig could
not be seen last night to verify a
rumor that Capt. Reid had left Suva
for Fanning's and that the High Com
missioner has sent war ship to Fan
ning's to see that he did not disobey the
injunction of the court.
High Commissioners Court for the
Western Pacific. before His Honor
Sir H. S. Berkeley, CD Probate Jur-
isdiction. In re William Greig's Es-
tate. Thursday, October 29th, 1896.
This was petition presented by Edwin
Denis Reid, of Sydney, New South
Wales, master-m mariner, claiming asian
executor of the late William Greig, of
Tanning and Washington Islands,
Western Pacific, and as guardian of
two of his infant children, that his
co-eXecutor, George Bicknell Greig,
who is the eldest son of the deceased,
should be ordered to file an account
of his administration of the estate;
that the court would give directions
as to the custody of the estate papers
and also provide for the management of
the estate by the appointment of a re-
ceiver or otherwise. The petition
further contained the usual prayer for
general relief and elections.
Mr.. Garrick appeared for the petition
er, Capt Reid, and the Attorney Cen
eral for the respondent, George Bick-
nell Greig.
Mr.. Garrick, in opening the case,
stated that the will of the deceased
William Greig had only recently been
proved, and read the petition and the
affidavit of Capt Reid in support, and
also the counter affidavits of the re-
5pondent, G.. B. Greig, and of Mr..
John Wightman, who was the agent
and also a creditor of the firm of Greig
e Bicknell, in San Francisco, and
asked that Mr.. Greig should be COM
PEELED to render an account of his deal
ings with the estate, and in as much
as he had always declined to render any
such account to his co-eXecutor, the
petitioner, that he should be removed
from the management of the estate,
and a receiver, if necessary, be ap-
pointed in his place, and the petitioner
in his affidavit intimated his readiness
to accept that office if appointed by
the court. The petition further alleged
various acts of remission and miscon-
duct on the part of Mr.. Greig, and of his
violence and contempt of the process
of the court when ordered to produce
the will of the late William Greig for
probate.
The Attorney General denied the i'm
putations made in the affidavit against
the respondent, who, he stated in turn
charged the petitioner with interfer
ing in the management of the estate,
to the entire control of which he had
been appointed with the consent of all
parties on the death of his father in
1892 He alleged moreover that petit
toner had without his consent carried
off from the island various cargoes of
copra and guano, and had never ac-
counted for the same, and he believed
had converted them to his own use,
and stated that he himself had in
tended instituting proceedings on be-
half of the beneficiaries to make the
petitioner account for what he had
done, when this petition was presented
against him. He expressed his will
lingneSs, if the court could see it's way
to act upon the present application, to
comply with any order the court might
make as to filing of his accounts, but
asked that the petitioner might also
be ordered to bring in his accounts,
of the produce he had disposed of, and
that he should in the meantime be re-