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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1714, 4 January 1905, Page 79

The tribe of black <Jews which. Mr Bainbridge fell in with during his travels in Central New Guinea recalls a London contemporary the discovery of a race of Jews in the interior of China in 1850. The Jews’ Society in London despatched two Chinese Christians to Kaifungfu, where a email colony of poverty-stvicken and degraded Jews was found, with its synagogue in a state of dilapidation, no Rabbi having administered to its wants for fifty years. Black Jews are also to be found in Cochin, in British India. They reside in a village apart from the town.

On the Canadian shipping register there were at the close of last year 7020 steamers, sailers and barges, with a registered 683,147 tons, the increase 011 the year having been 184 vessels and 30,534 tons. The ster mors were 2419 in number, with an aggregate of 338,251 tons. At a valuation of £6 a ton, tho total capital represented by this shipping would be about £4,100,000.