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PET KANGAROOS : MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA 



iph by A. Xielen 



Australia, which is the largest island or the smallest continent, depending upon how 

 one desires to refer to it, is the habitat of many curious animals, the best known of which 

 perhaps is the kangaroo. The weight of this strangely constructed animal is upward of 

 200 pounds when full grown, and in past ages scientists tell us was two or three times as 

 large. One of its peculiarities is a pouchlike fold of the skin in which the female can carry 

 her young. This, however, is not entirely confined to the kangaroo, but is a part of the 

 equipment of about two-thirds of the mammals of Australia. There is a curious dispropor- 

 tion between the forward and rear quarters of the kangaroo, the fore feet and legs being 

 very small and the hind legs of enormous size and strength. With these latter, assisted by 

 a huge tail, the kangaroo makes its way by means of tremendous leaps across the grassy 

 plains, where in earlier davs it was found in great droves. 



union in 1867. The British North Amer- 

 ica Act offered an opportunity for the 

 western provinces to come in as the Do- 

 minion government should permit and 

 require. 



WHEREIN THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION 

 DIFFERS FROM OURS 



The framers of the Constitution of 

 Canada thought it an improvement on 

 the Constitution of the United States, in 

 that the defects which the latter was sup- 

 posed to have shown in the Civil War 

 were corrected. Sir John McDonald in 



his opening remarks at the Quebec Con- 

 ference said of the situation when our 

 Constitution was framed: 



"There were 13 individual sovereign- 

 ties, quite distinct the one from the other. 

 The error at the formation of these con- 

 stitutions was that each State reserved to 

 itself all sovereign rights save small por- 

 tions delegated. We must reverse the de- 

 cision by strengthening the general gov- 

 ernment and conferring on the provincial 

 bodies only such powers as may be re- 

 quired for local purposes." 



I think it is the general opinion now 



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