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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 193, 18 September 1909, Page 4

In 1858 the first Atlantic cable was laid. The first b 1783. There are 77,683,084 acres in the British Isles. ' Banknotes were first issued in Chraa 2697 B.C. European porcelain was first manufactured in Dresden about 1708. The "irorld's record high jump for a horse it, 7ft Bin. • Western Canada last year produce? 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. During ten years France will spend £120.000,000 on naval construction. (ireat Britain possesses over £31,000,000 worth of shares in the Suez Canal. It took Captain Webb 21 hours 45 minutes to swim the Channel in 1875. Great Britain has spent £95,000,000 in naval construction in nine years. Neptune takes over 160 years to make one complete revolution round the sun. ■ By nib Wing matches, mice recently caused a serious fire- in a post office h England. To construct a tunnel beneath the English Channel would cost more limn £15,000.000. It has been estimated that it look the stream from which the Niagara Kalis originate no less than 35.000 years to hollow out the first three miles of its