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EXPERT FOR OUR FISHERIES. Ottawa, March 13. Professor Prince has departed for New Zealand to organise the fisheries services at the request, of the New Zealand Government. A VALUABLE VIOLIN. A resident in London, Ontario, offered to sell a violin at a stall, and Kueblik who was visiting the district, when it was shown to him, declared that it was the finest Stradivarius he ever handled and worth £7000. The instrument has been sent to England for expert examination. THE DRUNKEN DEPORTED. London, March 12.
Livingstone, one of the deportees from Soupth Africa, who _ was summoned for drunkenness, failed to appear in Court to answer to the charge. The other eight deporteds now disown Livingstone and state that he was no Labour leader, but merely a member of tho' General Workers' Union. Livingstone will not participate in the coming tour through England of tho deporteds, arranged by the English Labour Party. The Labour organisations are considering a proposal to send'Mr Ramsay McDonald as an envoy to Premier Botha and General Smuts on behalf of the deporteds. Mr Mac Donald is anxious to go, but is doubtful if his Parliamentary duties will allow him. LORD PLTJNKET'S WARNING. Lord Plunket, ex-Governor of New Zealand, speaking at the* British Women's Immigration meoting, referred to the danger besetting women emigrating to Australasia, and emphasised the need for supervision by a matron. The Bishop of Yukon said there are 80,000 more men than women in Canada. The problem was to make them British citizens, and this could be solved by getting sufficient British women to go' to Canada as servants, teachers, and nurses, and to become wives.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2311, 14 March 1914, Page 4
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