ARTERIES OF THE EMPIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 196, 19 August 1912, Page 8

ARTERIES OF THE EMPIRE.

OF STEAMERS

A NEW I'lt'KD FUNNEL."

r PRESS ASSOCIATION, f (Received Aug. 19, 9.45 a.m.) \ LONDON, Aug. 18. Mr Borden, tho Canadian Prime Minister, and Mrs Borden launched the Union Steamship Company's new steamer Niagara at Clydebank. Mr Borden, in the course of a speech, said that lines of steamships (Were the arteries of the Empire, and must be secured. He hoped that the Niagara was a. foretoken of much greater developments between Canada and Australasia. .

'Ehe Niagara, is capable of burning either oil or coal fuel.