BttBACH OF KHAUDDLBNT DKBTORS* ACT, It. G. Warnea wan brought up on remand charged with that, boing a debtor within tho moaning of the Fraudulent Debtors Act 1878, having boen adjudi cited bankrupt by order of tho District Court of Oamaru on tho 23rd day of November, 1881, upon tho petition of Gooryo Esther and Thoman Low, ho did at Oamaru fraudulently and feloniously, within four months from tho commence ment of his bankruptcy, to wit on the 11th day of November, 1881, miko pre parations for quitting Now Zealand by Hellintf his property and converting tho same into money, and did m iko prepara tions for taking with him cor tain pro porty, to wit tho sum of L5OO, which ought by law to bo divided amongst his creditor*. Mr IJistop appeared for tho prosom> c tion, and called W. G. Fillool, clerk of tho District j Court, who producod tlio office record of tho accused's boing adjudicated bankrupt on November 23rd, 1881. Tho 29th of that month was tho day appointed for his examination, and ho did not appoar, Robert Blair, furniture dealer, deposed that on tho 11' h November last ho had nought tho whole of accused's household fuintturo. At tho timo when tho bargain wai mado accused expressed no hurry for paymont, but afterwards asked witness to pay him tlut sarno uight. Accused gave wttno33 a written order (produced) to pay his storeman, Hush, LlB 10^ for him ; witness gavo Rush a cheque for LI S, William Mirtin, bailiff of tho Resident Magistrate's Court, stated that on tho 11 tli November last ho levied upon tho ntock-in-tr.ulo of tho accused undor a judgmont in tho case of Hatfon, King, and Co, against accusod. There wore a good many dummies in tho simp, and thero was a deficiency in goods usually aold in grocers' shops, but an abundance of colonial bottled alo, otc. Allan Ward deposed that he had boon frequently employed by tho accused a1?a 1 ? an expressman. About a fortnight beforo proceedings wore taken against accusod in Novembor last iritness had taken twenty two cases for him from a storo mod by accused to tho goods station at W.iitaki North; they wore heavy cisps and ap peared to be full, apparently, of liquor in bottles. Tho accusod also took a similar load to tho same place on the «amo night. 