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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4646, 26 April 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

In the course of a lecture on "Water,** Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw said it would take millions'of years to empty a glass containing water, particle by particle. Kelvin bad, indeed, calculated that if a single drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the particles composing it would look somewhere about the size of cricket balls. During 1900 the United Kingdom expended 281 millions on the navy’s seagoing force, against 8} by Russia, 71 by Germany, 12 by France, 1 by Spain, 5 by Italy, 4 hy Japan, and 13 l-3rd by the United States. Tlrus Great Britain and America together exceeded the aggregate of all the other nations of-the world. Groat Britain’s revenue was 130 l-3rd millions. Russia’s 190, .Germany’s S 3, France’s 145 j. Spain’s 351, Italy’s 691- Austria-Hungary’s 1161, that of the United States 1391, and Japan’s 25}. Imports—Groat Britain 5621 millions, Russia 36, Germany 320, Franco 17.91, Spain 31}, Italy 43}, United States 1774. Japan 25}. Exports—Great Britain 336 l-3rd millions, Russia 40 l-3rd, Germany 255 (imported exports hy sea not separately disunguished), France 152, Italy 30, United States 2SB, and Japan 231. These figures show conclusively that poor old despised John Bull has still a bit the hest of it.