GENERAL ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 May 1918, Page 6

GENERAL ITEMS.

It is stated that a vessel brought 5000 cases of champagne to Sydney the other day.

Greenland has no cats. How thankful the Greenlanders should be—imagine cats in a country wheTe Ifche nights are six months long.

He wanted to see the people happily settled on the land, and he wanted to see that they had a reasonable opportunity of doing so. Aggregation of the land was a ruinous policy for the country, but they could not blame people for it if the law allowed it, and the laws should be so enacted to prevent it. —Minister for Lands Guthrie.

This from the "New Republic," a leading American Review: —"Austraealled on to retire from his command, has provided soldiers to the extent of 7 per *cent. of her population. To match Australia's performance seven million Americans would have had to volunteer, or, rather nine millions to allow for those rejections on account of physical disabilities. No nation in the world has given so freely of her sons to a purely idealistic cause as has Australia. This is a fact for Americans to recognise with all the more gratification because Australia represents even better than the United States the democratic ideals upon which our national life rests." " j