A Dannevirke sheep fanner showed the News a return that is an eye-opener in the way the producers' money goes. He shipped Home 1171 carcases of frozen mutton. His gross return from the mutton when sold in the London market was £2030 15s lid; but charges amounted to £1457 7s 6d, leaving the farmer to pocket net proceeds amounting to the diminished sum of £573 8s sd.
The Germans have at last returned the ancient astronomical instruments stolen from Pekin in 1901, among them the earliest known oxample of equatorial niounting, made about 1279
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 83, 8 April 1922, Page 6
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94Untitled Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 83, 8 April 1922, Page 6
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