During the ratification of the Vatican Pact Cardinal Gasparri was handed a cheque for 50,090,000 lire (approximately £8,000,000). This has been claimed as the largest cheque ever known, but such is by no means the case. A far larger cheque was that for £11,008,857 16s 9d, which was paid over the Bank of England counter to the Japanese. Minister as the first instalment of the Chinese indemnity for the war of 1895. The second instalment was a cheque for £8.225 Is lOd When the De Beers bought the Kimberley Central Company they paid over a cheque for £5,338 650. Mr Pierpont Morgan, in connection with the disposal of Mr Carnegie’s steel holdings, drew a cheque for £4,781,724.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5456, 2 August 1929, Page 2
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