JOHN BULL'S LOANS.
If John Bull is fond of making; money, he is also extremely generous with 'it when made, as some foreign j countries have reason to acknowledge j He allows the King of Greece, for j instance. £ 4.000 a year, and has done : so for the past thirty-three years, so : that the entire sum of British money : paid to that monarch amounts to £132,000. This country has also lent Greece the large sum of a million and a half, for which it charges only i- per cent. The country also lent a j very large sum to the King of Sardinia a long time ago on very easy terms, though Italy is returning that steadily. The Sultan of Turkey, too, received an immense sum of money from the British Government after the Crimean War, though it may be that we took our last look at it the day it left the Treasury.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 211, 11 September 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)
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