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New Zealand Mail, Issue 931, 3 January 1890, Page 24

The total original coat of the British war* ships of all aorta at the last Spithesd review, paraded for the inspection of the Emperor, was £16,853,765. The number of shipß present was 73 ;of torpedo boats, 38. The weight of metal contained in the heavy guns was 8609 tons. The tonnage was approximately 360,000 tons. Five hundred and sixty-nine heavy guns, irrespective of quick firers snd machine guns, composed the £rm#m.ens. Coverings for the foot bpgpn with. sandals. After these came shoes left open toes, then the wooden shoes‘pf the ninth and tenth centuries, followed a little later by shoep with long.-pointed and turne.d-uP toes, which sometimes reached as" high" as the knee. Later a shoe was worn with an exceedingly wide tpe, s.o very wide that 'it impeded the process of walking. Queen Mary restricted the wearing of this by proclamation. The proclamation' ran to the effect that shoes should not be worn wider than six inches.