AN AMERICAN CANARD.
Tho following extraordinary, and, on the face of it, ludicrous, cable, recently appeared in the English press:—‘'New York, December 28.—T0-day the ‘Evening Mail’ states that a mysterious but very important official document from the Government of New Zealand is on its way to New Y'ork from the Pacific Coast. It is a dispatch to the British Government and is of so important a nature that a special train has been chartered on the Pacific side to catch the Cunard mail steamer Campania, which sails for England to-morrow. It is stated that the British authorities here have even induced the Cunard officials 1 1 delay the departure of the Campania, if necessary, owing to the absolute necessity of the dispatch reaching the British Colonial Office by January sth.” The concoctor of thist American speciality wrote without knowledge of Mr Seddon. Mysterious official despatches from New Zealand may, and do, sometimes find their way Home, but it is not special trains, but cypher cablegrams, which do the deed.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 10
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169AN AMERICAN CANARD. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 10
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