Tennyson received for his poetry about £6,000 a year. Mark Twain in his lifetime has earned £140,000. The three great gold countries of the world are South Africa, the United States, and Australasia. Oi these the United States may be neglected, because England exports more gold to America than is taken from it, and so with South Africa and Australasia as the important "countries of origin." In the four years 1905-1908 England imported from them £125,687,000—a1l new metal ; and if we allow roughly another £15,000,000 for the new gold drawn from elsewhere, we arrive at a total of £140,000,000. Now, what did England do with all this metal sent to London ? Thirteen and a half millions was retained for their own use. Of the rest, the largest amount went to France, and the second largest to the United States.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 262, 25 May 1910, Page 4
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