THE DOMINIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16668, 13 April 1916, Page 5

THE DOMINIONS

A SELF-SUPPORTING EMPIRE. SIR T. SMARTT'S HOPE. CAPETOWN, April 11. During the Budget debate in the Assembly Sir T. Smartt said he hoped that the Prime Minister would collaborate with the other dominions with the object of devising measures to make the Empire self-supporting during periods of stress. THE MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY. CONTRIBUTION TO THE RANKS. MELBOURNE, April .12. At the Melbourne University Commencement Day the Chancellor stated thatj 980 university men had gone to the war, including over 400 students who had broken off their courses and enlisted. PORTUGUESE REOCCUPY TERRITORY. LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 1.20 a.m.) Portugal has occupied Kionga, in East Africa, which Germany took from the Portuguese in 1894.

PERSONAL CHARM is the natural accompaniment of a beautiful complexion, and a beautiful complexion ie the natural result of using PEARS' SOAPS. Matchless for the complexion. No fewer than 19,648 boys who have received their training in reformatory and' industrial schools in Great Britain have served during tho war in the naval or military forces. Three of them have won the Victoria Cross. Nature's face is decked with jewels rare, Sho weaves glad garlands in her sunny hair, She is a lady, fair beyond compare; But man is subject to her darker moods, So to the rescue comos the euro of "Woods," The Peppermint Cure is just the "goods."