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By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London; Glasgow reports that all the available export coal for January has been booked for immediate shipment to Germany. This bcom lias increased prices in certain classes by 2s 6d per ton. A 'oeet sugar factory at Kelnam, Nottinghamshire, in which the British. Government is largely interested, reopens shortly with a much-increased capacity.
New York: Lieutenant Alexander Pearson has established a speed record, arriving with a. passenger in an Army airplane from Dayton, Ohio, a distance of 592 miles, in" four hours 32 minutes, which is twenty eight minutes less than tec liest previous non-stop record. Advices from Naples, Florida, state that Mr William Kennedy, the Canadian Minister for Railways, lias died from heart failure. He was convalescing there, after six months’ illness. Delhi: z The Bengal Retrenchment Committee has recommended drastic cuts to save nearly twenty million rupees, including the abolition of the posts of one Minister, two Executive Councillors, and all divisional commissioners. Havings, are recommended in all Departments, but principally Police and Education, while the. Department of Fisheries has been ebn'ished altogether.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18031, 20 January 1923, Page 9
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184HOME AND ABROAD. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18031, 20 January 1923, Page 9
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