FRANCE'S DEFICIT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9306, 20 November 1901, Page 1

FRANCE'S DEFICIT.

FINANCIAL CONDITION GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE. Hie decrease in the French revenue is agitating greatly the minds of politicians and merchants, writes a Paris correspondent. Though wearing all the outward signs of prosperity, France is in a very bad way financially, and, in the minds of some of her publicists, is tottering towards bankruptcy. Never since it became a republic has it known such a disastrous financial year as this first one of the new century. Each successive month of 1901 has further piled up tie deficit, which from January to September has increased to £3,600,000 as compared with the Budget estimates, being a decrease of £5,560,000 from the State's income as compared with that of the corresponding nine months of last year. These general figures are the more extraordinary from the fact that France has imposed an entire new line of taxes within the last few years, and any further innovations in the samo direction would probably be violently resisted by the country. It is difficult to foresee how France will be able to prevent a further accumulation of its appalling deficit. Indeed, it is by no means improbable that its financial dilemma may seal the doom of the Republic, just as a similar deficit was the direct cause of the fall of the monarchy under Louis XVI.

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YOUNG HERD LADDIE, bred by V. F. Dunnet, Kelso, is a bay horse, rising 5 years, standing 16 hands 3 inches high, full of quality and a great mover. His sire, Herd Laddie, was imported from Scotland by Mr H. Ray, and was afterwards sold to Mr D. Archibald for 750 guineas. Dam Darling, by the renowned Lord Salisbury, imported, who was never beaten in a show ring. Herd Laddie (2863, C.5.8.) was bred by Mr John Templeton, St. Quivox, Ayrshire. Sire, Jemmie Gray (1464); dam Sally (1786), by Baronet (32), by Newstead (559), winner of the Highland Society's first prize at Perth in 1871 ; grand dam Jess by Prince of Wales (673), who was considered the champion sire of Scotland, where he stood at £40 per mare. He gained the Highland Society's first prize at Aberdeen in 1869, second at Dumfries in 1870, first at Kelso in 1872, and first at the Royal Society's Shew at Manchester. Prince of Wales was got by General (322), winne» of the Highland Society's first prize at Inverness in 1865. General, by Sir Walter Scott, who gained first pnze at the Highland Society's Show at Dumfries, in 1860, and first premium at the International Show at Battersea. Jemmie Gray (1454), by Lord Lyon (489), dam Jessie Gray (69), by Prince of Wales, grand-dam Jean, by Enterprise (281), g g dam, Dinah, by Hercules (378), by Rob Roy (714). Enterprise (281) gained second prize at Glasgow as a yearling, second at the Highland Society's Show at Glasgow as a two-year-old, third at the Highland Society's Show at Aberdeen, and second at Glasgow as a three-year-old. Hir sire, Lochfergus Champion (449), dam Mary, by Lochend Champion (441), winner of the first prize at the' Highland Society's Show at Perth in 1861 ; the gold medal at the same show at Kelso in 1863 ; the second prize at the Royal Society's great Show at Battersea in 1862; and the Glasgow premium in 1865. Herd Laddie has only been beaten once in the Show ring, and then as a three-year-old he competed against aged horses. He gained first as Champion at Nathalia in 1890, first and Champion and the Dcherty Challenge Cup at the same show in 1891, and first and Champion prizes at Tatura the same year. His stock are noted prize-takers, winning the Produce Stakes and Gold Cup twice in succession at the Royal Show, Melbourne. Young Herd Laddie's dam Darling by Lord Salisbury, imported (1205, C.S.B) by Young Conqueror (959) dam Darling (74) by Tintock g dam Jean, by Surprise (846). Young Conqueror (959), by Conqueror (196), dam Maggie, by Lord Clyde, grand dam Sally Dear, by Grant's Sir Colin, imported, g g dam Young Sally, by Thane of Clyde, imported. Lord Salisbury has never been beaten in a show ring in Scotland or New Zealand, having taken no less than. 22 firsts and Champion prizes. . TERMS : Single mare, £3 10s ; two or more the property of one owner, as may be arranged. W. KING, Makauri.