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GENERAL NEWS.

Materned Debtor's £300,000 Deal Assets estimated to produce mrplaw of £228 910 are shown in `s statement of affairs filed under the failure of George Edward Heyl, consulting obemical en- ginsor, of King's House, Kinga- way. His total liabilities are pat at £71,209; The debtor, who waE born in Berlin, wis naturalised a British subject in 1898, and is now interned at Brixton. His chief seset is a claim for £300,000 against a company as considers. tion for the sale of his patents, &.

Colossal Dalty Co. Profits. Confirming a socrate the statement that the profits of the Maypole Dairy Company in 1917 were $747,000, compared with £462,000 in 1916, Mr. Parker, in the House of Commons, said that the prices of the products sold by the company were fixed by the Food Controller. He added that while the average dividend paid on the Maypole Deferred shares

for the four years 1914-17 waa 1121 per cent., the average divid- end paid on these shares during the three pre-war years was over 190 per cent.

Corporation as Coal Agouts. Secké, barrows, handcarts, perambulators, even children's -go carts, were used at Scarborough on Saturday at a sale by the -Corporation of 300 tons of coal, The coal was purchased by the Corporation last year for the purpose of supplying the poor when local merchants could not andertake orders. For weeks there has been a col famine at Scarborough. The Corporation's stock was sold in qasotities of from two stonea to bandredweight at the rate of Is. 61. per hundredweight.

Soldiers Three "Wives".

la Court. Three women, whom he had married, gave evidence at Old. street in two charges of bigamy against Charles E Elmes, a private in the A.8.0. The first wife said she married Elmes in 1898, and they lived together two years. Elien Groves, with whom he went through a form of mar. riage in January 1914, said that: in consequence of quarrele, ehe "turned out" Elmes, and she added. “I was very glad to get rid of him." Another witness was Norah Marfitt, who said abe married" Elmes in October 1914, and lived with him until his screst. In defence, Elmes, who was committed for trial, onid Murfit and Graves” both knew he was a married man.

Stul More Potatoes. Fotatoes are promising well, but another spurt would do no harm. Preliminary returns indicate that the screage of 1918 will exceed that of 1917 by about 25 per cent. When allotments and cottage gar dens are taken into account, the total foreage of 1918 will be nearly 900,000 acres. There are

still plenty of seed potatoes, and the final effort on the part of every farmer who bss land

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to spare during the next few other's contribution to the com- GERMANY'S GREAT week bould bring the country mon case, the French Govern well within sight of the million ment (at the request of General) Bores for which the Prime Minister Petsin) has conferred the decoza- appealed. As the entire crop, tion of Chevalier of the Legion of apart from what is needed on the farms, will be purchased by the Ministry of Food, no grower incure any risk of growing more potatoes then he can sail. T

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At earlier stages of the war Herr Zimmermann pointed to the Belgian and French Coozo se German alliance with a free sources of oil supply for Germany Ireland would mean the establish With these territories in German ment of a perfect and lasting hande-"a highly probable result communication between Germany of the coming peace" and with and her African colonial empire.** intensified oil culture in Togo,

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