GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BIBLE DISBELIEVED. BY DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH. United Prose Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, October 15. “I do not believe in the Flood. I never did,’’ said the Dean of Peterborough. when speaking at a Bible Society meeting at Northampton. Earl Spencer was the presiding chairman. He admitted that he had been rather shocked at the Dean’s statement. Personally lie always bad believed implicitly that the Flood had been, and ‘■'•at there had been a -Mr and .Mrs Noah. .LATEST PARISIAN FASHION. PARIS, October 15. A ,. L audacious new fashion is revealcu re. It takes the shape of a circle of pearls above the khee, which is visible when the damsels sit crosskneed in tlie Champs Eiysees or in the Bois de Roulogne.

Even the boulevards are embarrassed to find a fitting name for this ornament. though that of the “thighlet” has been proposed. •TEDGE’S RFRIG NATTON. RUGBY, October 14. Sir Montague Shearman lias resigned bis offhe of Judge cf the High Court oIJ Justice, King's Bench Division, which be has bold since April. BUT His resignation is due to a period of ill-health. FRENCH ATTITUDE. (Received t'Us day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 16. The “Times’’ 1 •correspondent states ithe Govcriimc-iit’s decision to accept tlm naval* conference imitation is welcomed, but it is re-emphasised it must clearly understand that France’s sole aim is to further the work of the ! /'acne's Prut >:ira tory 1 lisarmament Conference. The French view is that the problem of disarmament must be considered as a whole, therefore any naval agreement reached at the .January conference could not operate independently of an agreement for land and air forces. Therm is remarkable unanimity thereon the semi-official “Le Temps’ stressing it in three separate passages in tin 1 same leader.