Out of the 9400 commercial oceangoing ships in the world to-day, fewer than 50 can travel at more than 20 knots, am] fewer than 20 have a gross weight of more than 30,000 tons. A total of £28,000 was raised by a recent jewel sale at Christie’s, a number of the gems being sold to help chantable iinatitutions. A gold braee.let which belonged to the Empress Josephine realised £560 and a diamond riviero ol 41 brilliants which she gave ■to her daughter Hortense brought £ISOO. A gold snuffbox given by the Prince Regent to the wife of the Russian Ambassador in 1820 was sold for £205. A diamond and pearl tiara, bequeathed by the late Lady Mount Stephen to King Edward’s Hospital Fund fetched £BOO, and a neck lace of 75 pearls put up by the National Lifeboat Institution £940. Of the total sum emeralds from Paris realised nearly £12,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 10
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