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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 3

The Hurnian soldier is probably rmire heavily.tairdencd than any other. A foot soMier in the army of t<ie Czar carried over The weights borne by the foot soldiers the other principal Kuro|xwi nations are said to be as iollrws :—lrvnch, fi'Jlb : Itritish. H2tl. ; Cerman. fiW> : Sw ss.">9lb ; Austrian. 171b; Italian, l.'ltb. What is claimid to be tbiggi-sl financial transactii n In the -history of the world was recorded the olher day at Washington (says San Francisco correspc ndent of the Mel bourne Age), t'harli-s H. Tn-at. tbr new Treasurer of the I nitrd Slates, -sigirod a, riwipt for 1 .2.">J..">!(5.:<7.-> dollars fequal to more than £l.')o. ilfiO.OfHl). upon accepting that sum into his keeping from his retiring jTeiktvssor, Treasure!' H'ee'Hs Ihe .while sum is in ci,in. liill, or available securities, anil is all sturerl in the big vaults of the Treasury building at the National capital. There Bre fourteen heevlly-barml sates, in which bngw of gobl and 1 silver and paokagiy of grembacks an* piled. It took two and »4 half months to count tbe tnoney (jefore it was hand--A to *lw MOW Treasurer. Bight ego. vrhefv Hobcrts became ■HHiauW he gave the inao whom he tor 796,225,439 in the new