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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 23 November 1917, Page 4

Labour's Loyal Legion, recently organised, will pay £2OO to the American soldier who might succeed in capturing dead or alive, the Kaiser or the Crown Prince. The legion will pay £IOO to the first American soldier to take prisoner, dead or alive, a member of the geneal staff of the German army, and £SO to the first American soldier who captures, dead or alive, a German soldier. A telegram notifying him of the offer has been sent to President Wilson.

"Husbandman," , writing in the Southlander, says:—"Recentlv I had the p easure of motoring from Inveccargill via Dunedin, Palmerston South, Danback, Naseby, Clyde, and Cromwell, to Lake Wanaka, and back by Alexandra, Roxburgh. Raes Junction, Heriot and Tapanui. l'he trip wss not made aeair-st time, ano 'opportunity was taken to have a good look at the country, as well a3 admire the scenery. 'Jene'-ally speaking,' the stock in all districts looked well, and feed, except on some of those barren wastes about Naseby, appeared to be plentiful. The country looks well, and autumn so«n cr p? (unfortunately not enough of t' «-m) have done splendidly everywhere.

Quee sland, in my opinion, has a greater futnre than *ny orber Australian State, said the Hon. J"hn Ademson, ex-Minister for Railways in the north-eastern State, now on a vi.«:t to New Zealand. "There are proplr of rich l»n;te suitable fur •«! - 3S:f3 of cultivation—right from tie Darling Downs to the Athertor. Tableland, wnich is quite suitable for dairy farming." One feature that ws not pleasing was tint much of the farming on the tableland '/.as'done by Chinese, though the land Was owned by white people.