NEW ZEALAND'S SYMPATHY
MR. MASSEY'S MESSAGE.
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Wellington, May 10.;
The Prime Minister has forwarded the following telegram to His Excel-' lency the Governor:—" I shall be glad if Your Excellency will be.so good as to communicate by telegraph with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and ask him, on behalf of the Government and citizens of New Zealand, to convey to the people of the United' Kingdom, and especially to the relatives and friends of those who perished in the sinking of the Lusitania, New Zealand's sympathy with them in the sudden and drdadful blow which has fallen upon them : and our horror and detestation of the foul and dastardly crime which has been com--(Signed) IV. F. Massev."
WORLD'S SPEED RECORD.
LUSITANIA'S GOOD TIME,
The- remarkable steaming of the Lu&s- - across the Atlantic" last year excited w ; de interest. She left htiv "\ ork for Liverpool en Tuesday. March 3, and bttweer Tbursda- noon and Frioav noon 1 steamed 613 nautical mile*; at an average speed 0L26.-70" knots. /The world s rercord fptii'day's run east* preens to this was fil4?«ules. accomplice! 10 April. 1911. [ hv the ttonwd lirer Mfuretania, **■&' sitania, feowetcr. beinrt a Rood second* with 608 knots This achievement..** the hwtenia . further strengthened the already predominant position of tieao vessels on the Atlantic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15914, 11 May 1915, Page 7
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