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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13949, 4 January 1906, Page 9

The whirling winds of Arabia sometimes excavate sand pits to the depth of 200 ft, the rim usually being three times that length in diameter. A sand pit thus made may be entirely obliterated in a few hours, and another excavated within a short distance of it. A man, who within the last five years has risen from the position of a mine labourer to be the richest man in Mexico, has offered to pay off the Mexican National Debt, which exceeds £30,000,000. He developed gold and ■ilver mines which are said to yield him £2,000,000 a year.