Daily Southern Cross Office, Monday evening, July 29. The creditors of S. P. James and Son were con vened by advertisement today, at the Q.C.B. HoteL Mr. W. J. Hurst was voted to the chair, and a statement of assets and liabilities was read by Mr. Waymoutb, accountant, showing the former to amount to £276, and the latter to £808. The cause of failure was stated to he dulness of times, and payment of liabilities incurred before a previous failure, amounting in all to £900. The estate showed a dividend, after payment of execution creditors, of 4Jd in the pound. Several propor tions, with a view of enabling Mrs. James to carry on the business, were made, but each fell through ; and the meeting dispersed with no result. Meetings of creditors in the estates of Macky and Co. and John Higgins were oonvened to-day, at the office of Mr. J. B. Russell, solicitor. In the former estate the meeting wai called with a view to the appointment of sequestrators, but was adjourned until Friday afternoon, at three o'clock, 'in order to give creditors an opportunity of proving their debts. In the latter estate only two creditors attended, and no business was transacted.
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