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Nelson Evening Mail, 1 August 1916, Page 4

HE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY accepts MONEY ON DEPOSIT as under:— 31 PER CENT. AT CALL. 2 33 PER CENT if fixed at 3 or 6 4 Months. A PER CENT if fixed at 12 Months. Full particulars on application. GEORGE M. ROUT, Secretary. MONEY TO LEi\D AT 5 PER CENT. rPHE PERMANENT BUILDING _i_ Society lends money at five (5) per cent, on Cnv and Suburban Securities, repayable by MONTHLY INSTALMENTS. BORRO WE R S Participate in PROFITS. BORROWERS can repay sums of £2 or more, on any monthly pay-day, interest ceasing on sums so repaid from date of repayment. WHY PAY 5£ per cent, or 6 per cent, for your loans when you can obtain the MONEY from this Society at 5 per cent? TABLE OF REPAYMENTS and full information obtainable at the Office of the Society Trafalgar street, Nelson. GEORGE M. ROUT, Secretary, MONEY TO LEND. PITT AND MOORE. Barristers, Solicitors, and Notaries Public. TE have MONEY TO LEND FOR 1 Clients in large or small sums, to suit borrowers, at Lowest Current Rates of Literest. Very easy terms made for repayment of Principal. MONEY TO LEND. ADAMS AND HARLEY. (Late Adams and Kingdon.) Barristers, Solicitors, and Notaries Public. "ONEY to lend at current rate of interest on approved security.

In referring to the present conflict as a world-war writers and public-speaK-ui'i are not far from the actual laets. The following interestimr figures have been furnished: in regard to the Allies : ■Hq. Miles. Population. Belgium & Congo 933,836 22,424,000 France & colonies 5,041,672 86,361,000 Italy & eolon.it* Japan & colonies British Empire "Russian Empire Seibia 748,900 57.333.000 262.535 73.385,000 11,629'.565 424.089,000 8,797.043 176,400,000 34.047 4,633.000 Portugal & colonies 842,160 15,170,000 ! Total 23,389,750 839,800.000 • the tota'l' population of the earth to be about 1,600.000.000, and its superficial area 52,813,800 square miles, it will be noticed that the Allies alo::o represent over one-half of the total. The Teutonic and Turkish Empires and (Bulgaria, including the German colonies, represent a population of about 150X00.000, and am area nf seme 2,400,000 square miles. Hence the total number of people actually involved in the -war is approximately 1,000,000.000, and the area- of territory involved is about 30.000,000 square miles. Geographically Armenia- is a continuation of the Great Iranian Plateau. On the north if descends abruptly to the Black Sea ; on the south it breaks down in rugged terraces to the lowlands of Mesopotamia-, and on the east and west it sinks more gradually to the lower plateaus of Persia and Asia Minor. The greater part of the surface constitutes a tableland, or a series of tablelands whence come the headwaters -of the Euphrates and the Tigris. The total number of Armenians before the war was estimated at 2,900.000—in Turkey. 1,500.000: P.ussia. 1.000,000; Persia. 150.C0O: Europe, America, and East Indies, 250,000. 1 America has protester! to Britain against the so-called Black List, This list gives the names of a number of proclaimed German firm* -with whom trading bv .British subjects is prohibited. -Whifo the list may have only just been discovered in America it has actually been in- existence for many months. One list was publisned last February and another in April. The British Board of Trade Journal for May 25 last contains 29 pages of prohibited German enemy firms in various coun- . tries, neutral as well as belligerent. Ihis | i.s -merelv an application of the law to i stop trading with the enemy. / The position in regard to Mr Sidey's J Daylight Saying clause, which was carried in the .House last evening, is that it has been read' a second time, but it has not y-et been added to the 'Bill an question. To actually carry any new clause requires two motion??, one that I the clause be read a second time and the other that it be added to the Bill.