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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5

King Alfonso of; Spain has so for refused to follow tho usual custom of the Spanish Court of residing at the Escorial during the summer. He is reported as 6aying lately, with grim humour, in explanation of his refusal, "I shall spend quite enough time at the Escorial when I am dead, and do not intend to stay there until I have lost tho right to choose my residence." The Escorial Palace, it will be recalled, dontains 1 within ife vast area the mnsoleums which form the final resting-place oE Spanish royalty.

Sinoe 1900 726,000 acres of tillablo land in New York Stat© have been withdrawn from cultivation, says a pronouncement by the Automobile Trade League. The le'aguo makes this statement to emphasise the necessity of good roads to tho farmer as well as to the automobile user. Better highways will make the land profitable again by bringing tho farmer close to his market, is the argument.

"If there is ono tenot to which British self-complaoency has olung with moro desperate energy than another," says an English author, Mr. Charles ThomasStanford, in a recently-published book "About Algeria," "it is that our people are tho only successful colonists. . . .

A motor drive through tho rich plain which encircles Algiers will send our longcherished belief a-paeking to tho limbo of dead British prejudices." Tho author describes with special enthusiasm a visit to a fnvm whose equipment included two motor-cars and an aeroplane!

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