AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13721, 26 June 1915, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

(Received June 26, 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 26. The University has decided to allow medical students who have offered their services for the front to take their final . degrees earlier, so as to allow thorn qualify quicker than the regulation five years. This does not mean that the curriculum will be reduced, but students may make more strenuous efforts to pass. The Cabinet is completing a scheme giving preference to returned soldiers. , Land will be made available by irrigation and other settlement areas. The military authorities' ■' warn the public regarding cables from alleged soldiers in Egypt, asking for money. The numbers received, asking for considerable sums, have aroused suspicion. It is pointed out that soldiers receive pay and all necessary comforts and there is little need for additional cash. Ai Presbyterian ' chaplain at Malta writes: "Australian and New Zealand papers will be welcomed by men. of both Dominions at the island, the address being Rev. Sims, 205 Sfcradaforni, Valetta, Malta. MELBOURNE, Juno 25. Inquiries made by the Defence Department from headquarters in Gallipot! fail to disclose any authentic caae of Turkish atrocities. MELBOURNE, June 26. The Legislative Council has passed the Liquor Restrictions BUI. In the House, replying to protests as to the delay in starting the second shift at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory, Mr Jensen stated that it was starting forthwith. ' M ADELAIDE, June 26. A meeting of German-born Australians inaugurated a fund to assist wounded soldi era,