GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CZATHST DEBTS. PARIS, June 1,(1. AL Rnkovsky, the Russian Minister, is r< ported to have signed an ace ird with the French Government regulating the Russian pre-war debt. Russia is to pav annuallv £2.88;I,OCO for 02 years. It is understood that France will extend to Aln.scow commercial credits in the iieighhouiho cl of £N.000,003. Ihe agreement ignores private commercial debts, contracted prior to the Revolution.

LORD BYNG JIBS. I .'ON DON, June 17. Although a viseountcy was cniili'ircil on Barm Byng, il Yiiny. in October, m recognition of his services as Gover-nor-General ol Canada, it has not yt hecii gazetted, the delay being due to the high cost of the gazetting fees, which Lord Byng refuses to pay. I he fee lor the gazetting of a peerage. or o| an elevation therein ranges li'cun £330 in the case of a bnronv to (.‘.JO tor a dukedom, for which the recipients of the peerage receive letters patent hearing a wax model of the King's seal. The “ Evening News ” says it is understood that the fees which Lord Byng refuses to pnv were remitted In the cases of Lords Haig. .Icliicne. Beatty. Allenhy, Oxford. Balfour. Chelmsford, and Birkenhead.

BOBBED AND L();sT. LONDON. June 10. Because I.oui.se Bonny bobbed her bait, her lover. George Cotton, went back to bis wile. Charged with assault. Cotton said: It was her long hair that caused me to love and admire her. When sj ;0 deliberately destroyed her boaulv I lost my temper.’’ The two had been living together foil years.