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* Mr Balfour has been elected Chancellor of Cambridge University. Colonel House has arrived in New York. . Professor Murdoch, of Perth, states that when tho la to Mr Alfred Deakin was in England in 1907 lie was offered the leadership of the Unionist Party on Mr Balfour's retirement, and a peerage if he desired it. It is understood in New York that a foreign equipment and finance corporation. with a capital of 100,000,000 dollars, has been formed to provide credits to those countries needing equipment. It is reported that Beveral railway equipment companies are members of the corporation. A despatch from Mexico City snys the Foreign Office has announced that tho passport difficulties with Great Britain have beejii adjusted. A recent despatch from Mexico City Btated that Mexican Consuls had been instructed that it would be unwise to issue passports to British subjects desiring to enteij Mexico.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16653, 14 October 1919, Page 7
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MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16653, 14 October 1919, Page 7
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