THE EMPIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10036, 9 July 1910, Page 5

THE EMPIRE.

PEOPLE FOR DOMINIONS OVERSEA. PAN-GERMANISM. - United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright. Received July 8, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, July 7. The Duke of Marlborough, speaking before the Central Emigration Board, said the Empire must have a larger population in the Dominion overseas, in order to meet the growth of a par.-Germanic nation, nation, and to combat the develop of the yellow races. The progress of scientific emigration, he added,,, was necessarily slow. Of 700 applicants during the year* only a hundred stood the board's test. I

CANADA'S RECORD. FREE HOMESTEAD SYSTEM. Received July 8, 9.30 a m. LONDON, July 7. Reuter's Agency states that 23,354 free homesteads in north-west Canada, each of 160 acres, have been taken up during the last five months, compared with 13,111 on the corresponding period of 1909. EXCURSIONISTS' WORK. A PLEDGE. Received July 8, 9.43 a'.m. OTTAWA, July 7. Seven hundred excursionists are leaving Canada for a tour in Britam, under the auspices of the Sons of England. Each member pledges himself or herself to induce one Briton to come to Canada. SEITLERS FOR VICTORIA. SOME CAPITAL. Received July 8, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, July 7. | The first three persons going to Victoria as a result of the mission of Mr M'Kenzie, Victorian Minister of Lands, and Mr Mean, irrigation expert, in quest of settlers for irrigaion settlements in the State named, are practical farmers with a capital of £IOOO, £BOO, and £3OO respective-<