The rate at which ships of war tako in coal nowadays is simply marvellous. Eecently one of the first-class battleships in the Mediterranean, the Magnificent, averaged over 160 tons an hour, that is at the rate of nearly three tons a minute. A female inmate of Romford "Workhouse has died at the age of 102.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6136, 24 March 1898, Page 3
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