The salt tax in France averages Id a head far the population, that of Italv. 28d.
Twenty-four per cent of British emigrants travel cabin, and 70 steerage. Rice contains 791 percent of starch and sugar, against 70.1 per cent in wheat. The shipping lost or broken up everv year has a carrying power of 1,800,000 v tons.
The United Kingdom has 142,000 miles of road, 18,000 of rail, and 500 of waterwav.
Of the 050 tons of ivory brought annually into Lngland, Sheffield consumes a third.
Three per cent of the able-bodied men of the Christian world make their living at sea. 9
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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