The exodus from the Mies continues. Like the proverbial snowball if tends to grow with every revolution, and unless something is done with Government assistance to arrest its progress it will soon attain alarming proportions. A great many of those who sailed on the Canada with the latest liner did so with money sent home by friends in the Dominion for the purpose of taking them out. It is characteris tie of the Isleman to remember his old home, and considerable sums of money are regularly remitted from the Colonies and America to support aged parents and friends. In one village from which quite a number of young men and women emigrated Fast year, the smallest sum remitted home is said to be £20, while the average total-of remittances to the village in question during the year would be upwards of £60. "The majority of the latest batch of emigrants bore surnames beginning, with "Mae."
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