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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 128, 1 June 1871, Page 4

A German correspondent, with a vjew of assisting by practical illustration to obtain an idea of the enormous amount of war. ...indemnity (£200,000,000), which France is required to pay, forwards the following to the Melbourne Argus, translated from the Adelaide German newspaper :— •" Take 64 English sovereigns to be lib weight, gives 1395 tons loewt. 2qr. 261b5., and it would require 20 railway trains, each of 14 trucks (containing 5 tons of gold for every truck) to transport this mass of gold, which again would fill a room of the following dimensions : — 18ft long, 16ft wide, and 9^ft high. To form a roll of sovereigns, reckoning 16 sovereigns to an -inch, would require a length pf 196 English miles and 1500 ft. A smart cashier, ordered to count this sum of sovereigns, working twelve hours on each week day and able to count sixty soys per minute, would require fifteen years and eight weeks to accomplish his work.' 1 . *

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