The Bank of France has two milhar of solid gold in its cellers. It is calcic lated that it would require 600 drays, with two horses, to transport this P" e „ the amount could settle the "soft m ( ? n . question in the States, enable the_Siu to build ten additional palaces, and a of ironclads superior to all. the com bin navies of the world ; it could transpo an the world gratuitously to the Jan<? International Fair of 1878 supp them with a free ticket and a fair squ meal; the treasures of Croesus, of ° jnan, of Philip IV., pale before riahse'um of nuggets ; Spanish the owners of Turkish scrip, and in Peruvian loans axe allowed tovpi . cellars on the anniversaries of their dend days.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 152, 16 October 1876, Page 2
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124Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 152, 16 October 1876, Page 2
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