RUMORS FROM ABROAD.
It, is iv|mi'!ud iiiul n group of I'rtiK'h-S i ■ pi I n lists has formed a syndics: ■ in con-( met several rail■ways in Mum ii Hus,sin. The Hn.sdnn minister of railways has preps "cd riii. m able showing iJmt When tl‘ 'l'r-i iv S beriun railway U finished :iw journey aromuJ the world C*H be made in X! days. Since i he Ijiniisiana ami Texas farmers learned to raise rice lay irrigation they have invested $.*>,000,000 in 1.550 of eauals, capable of Hooding: 300,000 acres, and spent, $1,700,000 in building ilO modern rice mills. Under the new system the rice lands pay a aet profit of sls an acre. There are now in Italy 11,179 kilometers of street tramways worked by mechanical [lower, 200 kilometers, of these by (Med fieri y, and the remainder by steam power. They are owned by 01 companies and private concerns. The (own of Milan owns only s'/. kilometers, while the two largest companies control 2<>l ami 20a Idiom ete rs re s [ »ce ti vc Iy.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3572, 14 September 1905, Page 3
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175RUMORS FROM ABROAD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3572, 14 September 1905, Page 3
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