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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19968, 7 June 1920, Page 6

China and India have an unlimited capacity lor absorbing the Australian sovereign, but unfortunalolv in the process of absorption the gold piece is melted down, becomes jewellery, or js hoarded. .The Commonwealth has a decided objection to this disappearance, ami instructions have boon issued that persons travelling to India, and adjacent fcountiies will “nob be allowed to cany away more than tliirtv sovereigns, while in no ease will Chinese or Hindus be permitted to taka away mere than twenty sovereigns each. Travellers to the United States .and Europe, however, may still carry i'dD in gold. The wedding morning gift cf Henry VIII. to poor Anne Boleyn was an extremely copper-gilt, and finely engraved clock, which is still at Windsor Castle. Clocks appear to have been-favourite-presents of this monarch, for “Orologes” mostly, alas, of foreign make, figure largely in his accounts, and “ Straungcrs” indeed, almost monopolised the trade in Hie liner clocks and watches, not only importing ih‘>ni, hut settling in Tmgh'lid la make (hem.