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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 306, 20 May 1911, Page 10

Strip-tickets are very popular on London railways. North of the Tweed 33,000 subjects of the Tsar are at work. It co-its (Jermany ,£780,000 a year for the upkeep of her spies in Prance. Thirty cwt. is the weight of the tenor bell in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. There, is, according to the latest official report, general improvement in the health of the British Army. Seven brothers and sisters of a Norfolk family are all old-age pensioners, and are. collectively, 330 years old. In the German Army the average cost per man is something over £3S a year, while, in France it is slightly less than £3O . Having reduced begging to a science, an organised band of Jerusalem mendicants send out lifty million piteous appeals or help a. year. Konr hundred thousand school children will be invited to witness the forthcoming rehearsals of the Festival of Empinl at the Crystal Palace. When he won the featherweight boxing cba ) ipionship of Great Britain at the National Sporting Club, .Tim Driscoll earned money at the rate of £42 10s a minute. Since 104 A the Clerk of the British llouse of Commons has received £SOO a year. Previously he received £lO, certain fees on private bills, and a colleci tion, to which every M.P. was expected to subscribe.