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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13887, 23 October 1905, Page 4

Lotteries are illegal in France unless a special license bo obtained from the Government, and then it is only granted on behalf of charitable funds. The life of an express locomotive in England is estimated at twenty-five years; that of a freight locomotive at twenty-six years; that of an ordinary passenger engine at twenty-five, and that of a switch engine at twentysoven. ■ In the United _States the life of an express locomotive is eighteen years, of a freight engine sixteen years, of a passenger engine nineteen years and of a switch engine, twentytwo years. In eighteen _ years, however, the American machine has run 2,000.000 miles—double the_ average travel of an English locomotive.