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Bradshaw's Railway Manuo2 (H. Blaoklock 11,10 Co., 12s.) gives us

a great mass of interesting facts about railways all over the world which are Controlled by British capital. These are supple- mented by some selected particulars about American and other lines. Some of the Colonial results are noteworthy. In New South Wales 3,4//2 miles of railway, oonstriteted at the cost of 445,683,484, bring in a net revenue of 42,229,295,--i.e., 6 per cont. The Now Zealand figures show a net profit of 4720,000 on 2,391 miles, costing 422,498,472. Those figures are far less

tivourable, b eing about 3 per cent. South Australian railways earn a little over .25 10s. percent.