FEW CONNOISSEURS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 13 September 1895, Page 15

FEW CONNOISSEURS

Are there who3e judgment iB valuable in the taqte a r id selection of liquors. This choice few all concur in favouring Wolf Js SchnappsFrom a statement just published by the French Minister of Marine, showing the modifications which have tnktn place in the naval forces of France since 1891, it appears that in that year the active naval forces cost France 41,595 000 franc«, whereas in 1896 their coat will be 58,221,156 francs. He' ween 1891 and 189G fiftyseven vessels will have disappeared from the list of the fleet. They will be replaced by thirty-one vessels already completed, and twent) - seven vessels in course of conmructi -n. The fifi\-.even vtssels cut off the libt had cost 94 791 000 francs, an<l the fifty-eght ships by which they will be replaced will cost 532,453,000 fiance.