NEWS OF THE WORLD
CABLES IN BRIEF By Telegraph-Press Assn.— Copyright Sir Alfred Booth, chairman, of the Uunard Line, has arrived in New York to supervise' tho construction of piers (to cost 30' million dollars) for his company. He stated that .Britain desired to seo the United States develop into an important position in international trade. Britain did not seek tho commercial supremacy of the seas. A Sydney message states that a motor-car, with- tho driver aiid sis passengers, ran off a punt at Sackville. Tho passengers were extricated from the sinking car, but tho driver, William Strickland, of Drummond, was drowned. The car carried a horse and its rider with it, but both swam ashore. The Orvieto arrived, at London from Sydney with 2D eases of measles on board. There were a few deaths among 'hiidren in the voyage. A cable message from Vienna states tnas i:o: withstanding that a plebiscite is being taken to decide whether Carinthia shall remain Austrian or belong lo Jugoslavia; Jugo-Slav troops are concentrating on the frontier. A message from Lisbon states that the country is now calm. The. railways are resuming running. ' The King received the Earl of Liverpool and invested him with the Grand Cross of the Bath.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10718, 12 October 1920, Page 6
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