MIRTH DIITIXO UP. According to Professor PURIM. of the &ale Ronnele, Belgium, travellers and farmers agree that the land is drying, the waters are shrinking. and the deserts extending r ond he maintains that the drying of continents is due to a failure of rainfall, that is to say

MARKETS ESTATES and PROPERTIES Carefully SURVEYED and MAPPED. Levels taken for Draining and Other Works. FLAX, ' _SPECIIIOATIONI, _AND EATIMATES TOR BUILDINGS prepared in a few dap. RENTS COLLECTED. Register of Estates ' Residences, and Farms to be Let or Sold. VALUATIONS NOR PR

lessons at a nominal elisrge.—Addreas W.S., Mount House, Brasted.

Tuesday's Italian official communique said: No important event is reported yesterday. Artillery duels took place on the Julian front.

The gravest record of German crimes against prisoners yet published is contained in a summary just published in France of the depositions of French prisoners interned in Switzerland as to their treatment in Germany. It was carried out at the request of the French Foreign Office

The Clerk read a communication from the Kent County Council that they had considered be question of the change of the name of the Parish of Leigh to Lyghe and had decided that the spelling of the should be Leigh. A letter from the Parish Council of Leigh the Kent County Council

Owing to the shortage of manual labour, Rotherham Corporation have put women road-sweepers and scavengers on the main streets and roads. CORONER DIES IN CHURCH. Mr. Charles Barwick Diver, the Yarmouth Coroner, died suddenly in the Yarmouth Parish Church on Sunday morning during

In a snake and mongoose fight one's obse• yations are liable to be handicapped by ignorance as to whether the mongoose is playing or not. Sometimes he will jump straight for the snake's head, at other times he will play with it for half an hour or more, and I have always fouad,

Known as the site of the old Pound and Cage. the ownership of this piece of land was discussed for over three hours at Sevenoalts County Court. before His Honour Judge E. M. Konstam. on Monday. when the Sundridge Parish Council made claim for the land front M. and Mrs. G. Marett