HARD FELT HATS, AIH BRACES at HALF PRICE. | / | usual Price 10/6. NOW Good Strong Pairs. & / | TWEED OVERCOATS. lg* HYDROTITE OVERCOATS. Ifi* 1 Were 32/6. NOW Were 40/- NOW | Men's Mercers and 12, 14, 16, 18, George Street, £ Merchant Tailors, DUNEDIN. |
Diamonds of tho weight of 28 2-5 tons, which would fill a spneo of 10| cubio yards and have a value of nearly £200,000,000, have been taken from tho earth from the earliest time to the present day, according to the estimate just made by M. de Launay, the well-known French metallurgist. These figures., however, only concern the stones before cutting, which reduces their weight volume by "half, but multiplies their value by five. A box 3ft luph, 6ft wide, and Bft long would thus hold the world's total output of these gems in their finished condition, and would have a market value of £940,000.000, according to present prices, For Influenza take Woods' Great Pepper mint Cure, Never Ms. Is 6d, 2s 6d,-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15824, 24 July 1913, Page 2
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