The cement mad a from English river mud, and sold 'abroad, brings in over .£11,000,000 sterling a year. Lake Tetecaca, lying in South America between Peru and Bolivia, is the highest large sheet of water in the world. It is 13,000 ft above sea level. Germany is now second only to England as a hop-producing country. She grows .£2,300.000 worth a year. England’s product exceeds this by £BOO,OOO. The largeet eetate In Auetria belongs to Prince Sehwarzenbnrg, and covers 510,000 acres. Sirty.threo Bohemian nobles hold estates of over 12,000 acres each. The value of haddock 1 landed on English coasts is usually £BOO,OOO greater than that of herrings, and constitutes one. third ef the valve ef all the leh annually taken
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4424, 2 August 1901, Page 7
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