CANADA.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. PROPOSED LEGISLATION. Ottawa, March 18. At the opening of Parliament the speech from the Throne said the Military Service Act was producing the men required to keep up the Canadian reinforcements for the front. Legislation was outlined for the abolition of political patronage, and to facilitate immigration and colonisation after the war, to en-| courage agricultural production, and to create a special Government department to provide for the, care and education of returned soldiers. Bills would be introduced placing additional taxes on munition profiteering, granting the suffrage to women on the same terms as men, providing for daylight saving, establishing a Canadian war ruission in the United States in order to co-operate with Washington in common war measures, providing for the suppression of importation and manufacture of alcoholic liquors, providing for the registration of the entire nian-power and woman-power of the country with the object of utilising labor essential for industries and agriculture. THE LATEST. A Frenchman who came from Toulon Said "Ma Cherie, this tea is Tres Bien"; Of course, mannered she, 'tis Arcadia Tea—--1 The choicest that comes fromCwlon.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1918, Page 5
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