ROUMANIA

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1918, Page 5

ROUMANIA

AUSTRIAN DEMANDS. A GIFT OF RUSSIAN TERRITORY. Berne, March 21. Austria's territorial demands from Roumania total 7000 square miles, including the Vulcan Pass, the Porta Orientala, and the Iron Gate. Count Czernin demanded a strip 20 miles wide, from Ocna northwards for, 140 miles. He proposed to compensate Roumania for the loss of this territory and tho Dokrudja by giving her Bessarabian territory westward of the Dneister.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SUICIDE OF RETURNED SOLDIER. Received March 23, 12.5 a.m. Sydney, March 22. A returned soldier, Harold John Lee, aged 31 years, was found shot dead in a hedroom at Goulburn Street. It is supposed to be a case of suicide- Ho am red from New Zealand a few days agoRUN tiN STATE SAVINGS BANK. Received March 23, 12.5 a.m. i Brisbane, March 22. In consequence of a panic on the part of depositors in the State savings bank, the office has been besieged for several days by people withdrawing their accounts. .Mr. Ryan believes it is an organised attempt to create a scare. He assures depositors that there n ample money to meet all requirements.

The Minister of Public Works said that as a result of 1113 trip in North Auckland he could appreciate the disadvantages under which the settlers labored. "I went mile after mile through country which could carry at least one sheep to the acre, and was not carrying a hoof," he said. "That land ought to he contributing towards the support of hospitals in the district, and towards the maintenance of the roads—if you can call them roads—whereas it is not contributing a copper- The tim« has come in this Dominion when the pakelia settler who goes into the back country should be no longer penalised by great tracts of Maori land, the owners of which are getting tho advantages of European settlers in the country. The European settlers are not getting a fair deal It is high time that all the lands in New Zealand were put on the same bMift."