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Temuka Leader, Issue 1093, 14 April 1883, Page 1

Gun .Accident.- — A. Ivory, of Rangiora while out with a shooting parly on Wednesday afternoon, near Loburn, was standing up in a buggy, when his gun fell, sending a charge through the fleshy part of his right thigh, inflicting a large wound, which, how* ever, is not likely to be mortal, The English National Debt,— A Home paper in an article headed The National Debt in Gold and Silver—in Weight and Length,” says Its weight in gold wotrlcLbo 6282 tons; in silver, 120,000 tons; its transportation in gold would require 26 ships of 250 tons each ; 12,581 horse carts, each carrying half a ton, and forming a procession of 25 miles in length, or 281,769 soldiers, each carrying 50lcs ; in sovereigns, piled one upon another, they would be 710 mi'es in height,- laying them side by side and touching each other, they would forma chain of gold of H,OIS miles in leng’h, or nearly twice the circumference of the uioou ; the same amount in one pound notes, sowed together, would carpet a turnpike road 40 feet broad and 1010 miles long, or from land’s end (o John O’Groab’s and half way -back again ; if sewed together end to end, they would form: a bondage reaching four times non ml the world, or sixteen times round the inoon ; divide the debt equally among the inhabitants of the world, and each person, man, woman, or child, of every color, would re cave as their share 16s ; it would require 476 ships of 250 tons each to transport it in silver from Mexico (provided the mines m t at country could furnish it), and after reaching England 240.000 one horse caits, carrying half a ton each, making a procession of 677 miles long, or 5,000,000 of men carrying 501bs each, to deposit it in the vaults* prior to its use for the redemption of out--1 standing pledges.