CABLE MISCELLANY
Mr Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, had a half-hour informative chat with Sir Eric Drummond. SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations, who described the. League’s latest work. The interview is believed to be connected with Mr Bruce’s investigation of the question of Australia’s permanent representation at Geneva. ,
Fifteen workmen were killed and 76 were injured as the result of an explosion on the Norwegian oil-tanker Mantilla while she was in drv dock at Sparrows Point, near Baltimore. The workers were sprayed with flaming oil, and a number were engulfed in the blazing hulk. • * •
The death has occurred of M. Constantinesco, the Rumanian Liberal leader.
Doningo Massachs. who hurled a tlaggar at General de Rivera’s car on August Ist, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. * # • •
A fire at Cloncurry, Queensland, destroyed five shons and a hotel, also two shops used ns dwellings. The damage amounts to many thousands of pounds.. * • *
The cable ship Fnradav was expect-! ed to complete the Fiji-Fanning Island section of the 'duplication of the Pacific cable on Saturday if the weather is favourable.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 3
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179CABLE MISCELLANY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 3
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