Profits from the Paris Exhibition.
M. Neymarck has communicated to the Paris Chamber of Commerce a table of the profits which accrued to France by the Exhibition. The deposits at the Bank of France were £3,000,000 in excess of the normal total. Between May and the close of the Exhibition 600,000 English and American tourists arrived 5 the Americans had letters of credit and cheques, for which they obtained gold amounting to £14,000,000 and there werel,soo,ooo other foreign visitors. Deposits in private banks rose by a sum of £3,3000,000. The railway companies increased their usual income from passengers’ traffic by £260,000. The Seine river steamers gained £63,000. What waggonettes and other wheeled vehicles earned seemed incredible. M. Neymarck knows the owner of a waggonette which did thirty-three double journeys a day, conveying at each journey eight persons at a franc a piece, thus taking about £2O a day.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6239, 11 June 1890, Page 3
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