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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9503, 22 December 1905, Page 3

Fearing that the rowdies would loot the, settlement, the Diadem is landing 500 men at Shanghai, where the coolie strike and riot have been suppressed. The American and German cruisers will also land troops. General Booth, in a letter to King Edward, announces that Mr George Herring has given the Salvationists the use of £IOO,OOO, ultimately repayable at the rate of £4OOO annually, for the benefit of the Hospital Fund and for the purpose of home colonisation and settling some of the unemployed as peasant proprietors. Each will receive five acres of suitable land, a cottage, stock,, seed, implements, and temporary . provision for his family. Each settler will repay the outlay and interest in instalments extending over a term of years until he acquires the ownership of the property. Any profit from the scheme will form the nucleus of a fund for the permanent extension of the effort, The Southland News' says :—" It is stated that an offer has been made by a well known firm of drapers in the north to puuchase a leading hotel in Tnvercargill for- occupation by them when the premises are vacated by virtue of no-license being carried. A newspaper offered a certain prize for the best answer to the conundrum : " Why is a newspaper like a woman ? " The prize was won by a lady in Oklabama, who sent in the following: "Because every man should have one of his own'and not ran after his neighbour's " Ma Justice Williams' leave of absence dates as from the 31st inst, and *he leaves for England on February 1. It is definitely settled that Mr Justice Cooper is to take up the work of theOtago. and Southland districts in the meantime. Japaoese newspapers threaten coercion if China continues to be obstructive in Manchuria.

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