THE END OF ENGLAND.

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 4

THE END OF ENGLAND.

Mr John W. Graham, an authority on the smoke nuisa*uncc points out that i nwinter England now uses as much coal in a single week as was used in a whole year when Watt invented the steam engine, and that, on the present average of output, the visible supplies of coal will be exhaustt'W 0 husdred years. Then : "When our coal has gone the manufacturing •and mercantile part of the greatness of England will have gone too. London will live by running hotels, in which Americans can spend thoir holidays, and as a centre of cultui"s»-trnd fashion; in Lancashire and Yorkshire sheep will wander over the ruined heaps of former towns; Manchester and Liverpool will be visited chiefly for their art galleries and libraries, their impoverished universities and in ■teresting old town halls, doubtless cleaned at fast. The people, or those 'who survive, will have emigrated, and be working in cotton mills in Saskatchewan and Rhodesia." Mr Graham (says '^Science Slf tings") forgets there are other forms of energy than coal, "and we commend to him the work of Nikola Tesla, so admirably demonstrated in our columns lately."