FACTS ABOUT LONDON.
The cost of provisioning London, and the quantities of victuals of all kinds consumed by i&evigilMbitMitg,,, put the commiap^^2olJh|p/JflJ4eijt' army that was eyerjput in -lh# field entirely in,l!^J|s||J^e||ijopulation of LondorP'had grown from 150,000 in 1608 to 4,250,000 at the present time Suppfljsjng t}»t ihje recent rate of growth* -w«& mfc*. tamed, London might easily, m the course of* »n fter^ halfsontury,f po sess ,aTi population Jofi over 7,000,000. The six principal tail-* way lines of the metropolis carried annually over 200,000,000 peo I©. The tranrfcay .^ppfriiips; ; ctrnie^ unitedly some 150,000,000 more, and the two great bus companies, • (the General Omnibue and the Boad' Car Companies, carri d from 120 000,000 to 180,000,000 per a> num additional, ''he three agencies togethe tlicrefj c carrie(fffijn^u^y*3b > |b^ liQ;00p,000 nearly twelve times the present population of the United Kingdom. There were besides 11,800 oabs( | which carried, roughly, some 8 ',000,000 p sseng rs per annum. 100.000.000 to I^PjJOjQOo worn tavollod di.ily tq /at'w . inlravftKe^ 'suburls by every railway that ha* a feifnjna'istitiotiinlipjidonibtiaginjf' up the to al numbers carried an. nually, into And out of Londoni to botwean 490,000,000 anl 600,000,. 000, a| **\*> I •i.Ri'.\9it •«.•*.*,/ »..{. j.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 13 August 1889, Page 4
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194FACTS ABOUT LONDON. Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 13 August 1889, Page 4
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