The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-11-27
Matter Before the High
Courts in FIJI.
Cunbcat Said to Have Been Sent to
Fanning's-Both Sides Must
Appear in March.

Times, November TN, Is wen hnoWH
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
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 a petition presented by Edwin
Denis Reid, of Sydney, New South
Wales, master-mariner, claiming as an
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 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
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-
spondent, G. B. Greig, and of a Mr..
John Wightman, who was the agent
and also a creditor of the firm of Greig
& 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 its 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-
strained from any interference in the
present management of the estate.
Mr.. Garrick having replied, and OBJ
jected that on the present application
the court could not order the petitioner
to file his accounts.
His Honor gave judgment to the fol-
lowing effect
This petition was presented by Capt.
Reid in the double capacity of exec
utor of William Greig of Tanning ISL
and, deceased, and guardian of his in
FAINT children, and contained allega-
lions against his co-executor, George
Bicknell Greig, who was the eldest son
of the deaceased and one of the bene-
ficiaries under his will The object of
the petition was to obtain an order
from the court for the filing by the eX-
ecutor G. B. Greig, of an account of
his dealings with the estate, and also
to obtain his removal from the active
management of the estate which ap-
peared to have been entrusted to him
since he became executor, and for the
appointment of receiver in his stead;
and in his affidavit the petitioner offers
TO accept such appointment. The petit
ton also asked for an order as to the
State papers; and there was the gener-
Val prayer for such further relief and di-
rections as may be deemed necessary.
The petition having been served upon
the respondent, the latter has made,
in the affidavits he has filed, certain
grave allegations against the petition
er, asserting that he has dealt with
certain produce taken from Tanning
Island forming part Of the estate of the