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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 31

A French scientific journal publishes some particulars as to the consumption of tobacco, which is decreasing in that country, being at the present time about 21b per head of the population annually, whereas in Holland it is 71b, in the United States 51b, in Belgium and Germany ;ilb, in Austria-Hungary 2^lb, and in Canada about 2]lb. The consumption in Sweden and Russia is about the same as in France (21b), while in Great Britain it is not quite l^lb. The same statistican is also responsible for the calculation that the consumption of matches in Europe is 2. OO( ),():>() 000 in the course of 21 hours, being on the average 12 per head of the population in Germany. !) m Belgium, s m England, and only <"> in France, where they a ic of such bad quality that one would have supposed the consumption must be proportionately greater than in any other country. Mr. P. Lundon, Pluuni-i Chambers, Wangamii, is still busy putting people on the soil. He has also hotels in town and country For Sale anl To Lerse. Write to him.— %*

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