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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7221, 22 April 1884, Page 3

Little more than 50 per cent of the population of Chicago was horn in the United States. By the latest census of Groat Britain it was shown that there were 17,707 Americans living in England and Wales. The American colony in Paris was about equally as numerous, while there were even more Americans domiciled in Germany. Ihe reflux tide of emigration is already large and is rapidly swelling. France»a improving her naval artillery. The establishment at Ruelle has just sent out some guns of a new pattern. These guns, invented by a French naval officer, have an effective range of 10 kilometres, piercing the thickest plating of ironclads at 4000 metres distance without the ship being shaken ns by the other guns. In the United Kingdom there are 18,500 miles of iron highways, constructed at a cost of £767,899,570, nearly the total of the national debt. Exclusive of 539,568 season-ticket holders, 654,838,295 passengers are being annually carried, besides 256,215,833 tons of goods. The annual receipts from passengers teach £28,796,813, and from the carriage of goods. £37,740,315, the working expenses being £36,170,436, the net earnings £33,206,688, and the average earnings on capital throughout 482 per cent.