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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 223, 9 January 1877, Page 2

In Missouri the Courts have decided that a woman is not an old maid until she is 35 years old. The tide of feminist emigration to Missouri has already set in, r ' and there isn't an emigrantess over 34 years old. It is stated that Chinese women are sold and bought every day in San Francisco, and that sales of these poor creatures take place on the arrival of every steamer. A tract of country 40 miles in length' is being worked as a gold&eld entirely by the Chinese at the Palmer, Queensland. . Gambling and rowdyism are rampant. Moody and Sankey's Chicago "building,.., for-worship will accommodate 10,000. It. * will be converted into stores after the re- f vival is over. A San Francisco.paper says that at least two-thirds of the 2,000 drinking saloons in that city are owned by the wholesale liquor dealers. Mrs. Woodhull has received from Court an absolute divorce from Blood. She is allowed to re : niaray, _he|J has not thatpriv2e'ge.' "1 . Jfe?ri?fe|