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j EMIGRANTS WARNED, j LONDON, Jan 27. Owing to the congestion in the labour market in South Africa', the High Comt mission is warning intending immi- . grants that their entry will lie, prohibit- , cd imles sthey are in possession of writ- - ten evidence of having definite emj ployment to get, or else capital suffi- , cient for their maintenance for a mini- . mum period of six months. 1 HORSES TO GO. LONDON, Jan 26. j The “Daily News” sa.ys: “The War Office has decided that motor tractors i . shall replace horses In every section of ; ■ the artillery. Tliis will mean reducing ! j the numerical personnel of the artillery; : and increasing its mobility during the i | war.” | • | ! MOTOR CAR THIEVES. j ! LONDON, January 26. j Scotland Y-ird he« rounded up a ] gang of motor car thieve,•• who have I operated in Jam-ion for some time by ■ altering the nans on th* cars. The ' gang systematic illy sold cars to bona fide buyers in Winchester where the ! 1 police found 20 stolen cars. Four ar- j • rests have been made. I i I ! N.S.W. LOAN. | j j LONDON, January 27. j | A New South Wales loan (intended to meet debentures and stock of ; old loans maturing next August and 1 October) is being issued. It will he repayable in the ten years from j j to 1940 POLAND’S OFFER. RERUN January 26. Poland ha 9 offered friendly relation to Germany provided the latter carries out the conditions of the Versailles .Treaty and does not oppose a Franco-Polish alliance. FRENCH MINISTER . ACQUITTED. OF SHOOTING CHARGE, PARIS, Januarjy 26. Vilgrain has been acquitted. ELECTRIFYING CONTRACT. REUTER*B TELEGRAMS (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. Vickers electrical company of Manchester, announces the receipts of a contract at the price of £750,000 to a million sterling, for materials to electrify South Africa railways.