AMERICAN ITEMS.
fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE 18800IAT10N.] FALL IN COTTON. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 16. The cotton market has reacted in sympathy with the English coal strike. Cotton which has been falling in price recently dropped forty points to-day. ■A DIPLOMATS LIQUOR, (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 Considerable interest is attaohed to the Revenue Department’s announcement that Diplomats importing alcoholic beverages from abroad will he compelled to bring them to Washington from the port of embarkation in their y own motor lorries, as the railways cannot under the law carry such liquors. It is further announced that Diplomats ■ luggage will be searched to see that they are not bringing liqilors in. The State Department has intimated it will not P 6™ tiie searching of Diplomats luggage on the ground that it would he a contravention of the time honoured ’ custom of regarding such luggage as inviolate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1920, Page 3
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154AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1920, Page 3
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