AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

GENERAL NEWS'. Sydney, June 20. The university has decided to allow medical students who have offered their services at the front to take the filial degrees earlier, ao as to permit them to qualify more quickly than in the regulation five years. This does not mean that the curriculum will be reduced, but students may pass by more strenuous efforts. The Cabinet is completing a scheme giving preference to returned soldiers. Land will be made available in irrigation and other settlement areas. The military authorities warn the public regarding cables from alleged soldiers in Egypt asking for money. Numbers ; have been received asking for consider- ! able sums. This has nrouovj suspicion, j It is pointed out that soldiers receive : -pay and all necessary comforts, ami 1 have little need for additional cash. lArcMishop 'Wright lias issued a stiri ring pastoral to his clergy, urging tlie Ohureli to do its utmost to induce young men to answer the call to arjns. The heads of other churches are using their influence similarly. A Presbyterian chaplain at M«ilta writes that Australian and New Zealand papers will be welcomed bv the men of both dominions at the island. The address is: The T!ev. 'Mr. Sims, 20,') Strada Forni, Valetta, ftlalta. Adelaide, June 2(1. A meeting'of fierman-born Australians [ inaugurated a fund to assist wounded j soldiers.