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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2861, 28 August 1916, Page 6

Every woman has the cbance of winning a good prize m the new Desert Gold Tea Competition. Drink this superb tea regularly—its quality and flavour are unequalled. Particulars from Desert Gold Tea, Box 1520, Wellington.-Advt. Scotland's poet, Robert Burns, had no fondness for the Germans. The following scathing sentences occur in a letter which tho poet addressed to the Rev.' Dr. M'Gill, of Ayr, on the German of his time:—"lgnorance, Superstition, Bigotry, Stupidity, Malevolence. Self-conceit, Envy—all strongly bound in a massive frame of brazen impudence. Good God, sir, to'6Uch a shield humour is the peck of a sparrow, and satire the popgun of a schoolboy. Cre-ation-disgracing scelerats such as they, God only can mend and tho devil only can punish. In the uncomprehending way of Caligula I wish that they had all but one neck. I feel impotent a3 a child to the, ardour of my wishes. Oh! for a withoring curse to blast the Germans of their wicked machinations. Oh! for a poisonous tornado winked from the torrid zone of Tartarus to sweep the spreading crop of their villainous contrivances to the lowest Hell!"