Premier Roid of Now South Wales saw a sample of Broken Hill water the other day, and he is not surprised that even teetotallers would refuse to drink if, He declares that it looked liko a glass of beer.
fho late Colonel North was chairman of two railway companies and of seven nitrate companies, of a colliery company, ami deputychairman of a bank ; he was the owner of a brewery, of cement works, of printing works, and of a manufacturing haberdashery business, of a typewriter manufactory, besides having a large interest in a distillery and an important house of business in Iquiquo. Beside all this, he was interested in Wost Australian mining operations.
At the end of last year the gold in the Bank of France amounted to £78,012,000 and tho silver to „Cl!),38i,000. It was estimated that the Kroneh people invested £ 10,000,000 in South African mines during the year.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1263, 14 May 1896, Page 28
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