EXTRAVAGANT YOUNG MEW
■jvj Lxsrl;a.\UK policies to ttAtsE £1,50,01)1). Koine remarkable stories of extravagance are contained in I he'report of tin English Jnspccter-ttcuoial in Kankrtipley for 1007 (savs the Eondou Uailv Mail). In one case the debtor, a baronet, became entitled to £4S,S7S a year in ISSU, .when ho was twenty-four. In a short time he was charging his life estate and ell'ecliiig policies as security for loans, until in eighteen years lie owed r.i.50,000 thus secured, 'while his uii'sccun-d dclils amounted to ov-r £111,01)0. The life policies were 37i! in number for a total of £178,500. To extricate liim from his t.nibarrassincnt, relief from .Parliament was sought, and an Act was passed in 1001 empowering the trustees to buy lis life estate and- policies, pay- his unsecured debts, and make him a suitable greatly exceeded his income, and at tae dale of the receiving order be owed U22,D00 unsecured. In another case the debtor, on reaching the age of twenty-live, shortly before his bankruptcy, came into a for-] of the receiving 'order he had created charges exceediutr CtoO.OOO. A solicitor whip failed for £70.000 was the Mile representative of a lirm of a. hundred years' standing. Not conlent with-hi s professional income, about £1.500 a vear. he spieulatoii heavily on the Stock Exchange. Having squandered his own money and all that he could 'borrow or that came under his (outrol as .solicitor or as trustee, lie absconded. The admitted proofs include Csl.li(i:) for money appropriated.
Um- debtor. ..n ;iltiiiniii!r his majority in isii!). inii.-ril.'.l over cis.Vnmi, -i'il>j.-<-t |.» cerium I'aniilv On leana;;' Kiun In' •■«-<■<[ i 3 .iiiid mi Iris tueiitvlirsi. birthday his dclil, iiiiiomilcri ui C.'Ci.llim. His iinMinc ivn.s CTHIIK u yi'ii;-. lint lie spent Cii.UOO. His failure, was due 1" c.\tni vacant livilijf, liiiiillrinjj ;'n|ii'cmii(ius friends, oxlui'tioiinte rales ul interest, ami losses on (lie turf.
Thasinai 1 . Thousands of women are wasting away 'lay by day, week by week, month bymonlh through an.-;icly,ovcnvi>ikand motherhood. Their once robust cony>{it utinnshrive been overtaxed, and t'\e wasting away process lias thrown tlicni into decline. From strong, robust, vigorous health to the last bed of sickness is hut a step or two. How important then to check this weakness and wasting away, Delay means but one eudi ng ■- consumption. Every woman who has weak lungs, who is over works il, who has a eolith that does not rntud, asthma, catarrh, or lung' trouble of any kind whatever, should fake Lane's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, Lime Soda, and Creasote, and should take it to-flo;. It enriches the blood, restores health and activity, gives vigour- and vitality to both mind and body. It is a tonic and a medicine food for run-down, overworked, overtaxed, and exhausted women. All grocers and 6tores sell it. Price 2/6 and 4/6, "It'e Famous." 35
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 230, 22 September 1908, Page 4
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