Over 1,000 ships of various kinds and sizes sail up and down the English Channel every twenty-four hours, anti there are seldom fewer than 200 near Land’s End. Life policies to the amount of llr 800,000 are carried by the r ihar ot Russia, while King George and the Kaiser arc covered for about a million pounds each. •Vt a. recent census of four-footed animals in Groat Britain there were 7,037,327 catt-le, 27,102,945 sheep, 2,349,946 swine, 1,545,376 houses, and 1,826.841 dogs. ' "Different: men have different opinions.” Hail the author of the above truism lived in modern times, he might have added: "Save on ono point—the. Excel-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3399, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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106Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3399, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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