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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9774, 22 March 1895, Page 6

The following clipping may bo taken as a sample of how farmers, or some of them, are coming to grief in the old country through the depressed condition of agriculture:—One of the largest farmers in South Lincolnshire, Mr. Thomas Pope, of Thurlby and Bourne, came up for his public examination at Peterborough Bankruptcy Court recently, his statement of affairs showing liabilities £4876 lis lid, and assets £2266 Os 3d, deficiency £2610 lis Bd. The debtor commenced farming in 1860, and in 1874 was farming over 1000 acres, while he had a capital of over £10,000. He had been Josing money tor several years, including £2000 through the flooding of his land in 1880. • His household expenses had only been £130 a year, and he had only kept one servant in the house. Mr. Alter, of Stamford, a solicitor, himself a creditor, said there had been no gambling or extravagance, the debtor's and his wife's fortunes having been sunk in the land. " Yalumba '' special old invalid Port, vintage 1880. From oldest vineyard in South Australia.— Campbell, and Co.