Fifty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-nine sheep have been railed from the Feilding station since January Ist, the numbers for the respective months being January 14,269, February 18,955, March 20,075. A new field for employment of kanakas deported from Australia has beenjfound in the sugar plantations of Fiji. So far, out of 5,000 islanders who have to leave Australia, about half that number have departed, the bulk of them to their old homes. The activity of the sugar industry in Fiji suggested that these men, accustomed to the canefields of Queensland and New South Wales, might well be indented, ancl '236 of them have already found employment in the group. The outlet in that direction is the wider, in that time-expired coolies v are leaving Fiji, 600 of them having recently sailed by the steamer FaziJka for Calcutta. So far practically no kanakas have been deported from Queensland, but the business of collecting them and their families has now begun on the northern rivers. Gout and its kindred disease rheumatism are caused by excess uric in tbe blood. If you suffer Bheumo wilt soon cure you. Givß it a fair trial., 2/0 and4/U. All stores
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 5
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195Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 5
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