MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Within a few hours the French public subscribed 4000 million francs worth of 15-year seven per centum Treasury bonds, ottered in view of consolidating' the floating debt.

The London actress Miss Evelyn Laye has decided that she must adhere to her agreement to nlay “Prince Charming,” the manage-, ment holding her to her contract.

A large group of English manufacturers has completed plans for a great industrial selling campaign of British goods, for which they are organising, within the next year. Representative exhibitions of goods will be made in Britain, Canada, and Australia. The first opens at Montreal oh August 28 The Prince of Wales is expected to visit it.

"I think a good case can be made out for asking the Government financially to support our athletes in these international competitions, on the ground that the sports benefit every class of the community, and contribute towards the peace and harmony of the nations,” declared Lord Kochdale 1 at a meeting of the British Olympic Association. £20,000 is needed io send 500 sportsmen to Amsterdam

The Postmaster-General, Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, speaking at Croydon, said: ‘‘Certain Socialist leaders are reported to have said that if Britain became involved in a Chinese war they would do their best to prevent British troops from being assembled. If they do that they will end up, and very properly too, against the wall with a firing squad in front of them. It is just as well that they should know that right from the start.

The Bishop of London, at a luncheon given m Sydney in Ins honour by the Institute of Journalists, complained of what he termed misrepresentation regarding the revised Prayer Book. Recently, lie said, 34 bishops out of 36 agreed to the change, but the only two items cabled to Australia were from the speeches of the two who had opposed the revision. After r ,>■,-creation with union leaders he li: <l modified his views on Labour's attitude towards migration. They assured him Labour was not oppi.-sed to immigration as a whole, but objected to dumping, and he ngrc'-d with them.