MARQUIS OF QUGENSBERRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 14 May 1912, Page 6

MARQUIS OF QUGENSBERRY.

AX IMPOVF.THSTIF.D PF.KH. Pmy Sholto Douglas. Marquis nf Qnoonsberry. attended before Mr. fießistrnr Brougham at the Court of Bankruptcy. ).omlo», oil Marcli 22. fav hi? publie examination oil a statement of nfl'airs returning hi* liabilities at J!27fio and his a« nil. Examined by Mr. Walter Hoylp, Assistant: Heeeiver. the debtor said lie had lwn urovinuslv ndjmhicd a bankrupt-in 1002, his liabilities: Wns .£12,879 and assets .£141; bill, iii .Time, tln> C-oiirfe spproved n nroposal of payment of a mm. position of not less than 12s. fid, in Hm pound out. of (lie proceeds of the sale of the whole of hi" interest, in the Qnscnebcrrv Trust K-tato. Since 1!W) lie luul been eiipajjcd, he said, in financial transactions relntinu to tho snles of mines rubber estates, and other properties, lie received n commission, mostly ill shares of the com panics, the majority of which wore now non-existent. His income from that source had averaged Bionn per annum. Owiui: to increased household and personal expenditure during the past few years bis income had been insufficient, and he had in con sentience borrowed from friends and professional money-lenders. On. Aupust 12 last, the debtor also said, lie went to the, United States and worked as a journalist: nt a weekly salary of .CM, but, on hearing of these proceedings he returned.