GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH DEBT. PAYMENTS TO AAIERIICA. .United Press Association, —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 15, The Treasury" announces the payment to United States., of 93-,795,000 dollars whereof 27,000,000 dollars represents the repayment of principal, the balance The total payments since funding the British debt Americaward is iioav 1,124,000 dollars, Avhereof 174,000,000 represents repayment of the principal.

The amount outstanding iioav is 4,426,000 dollars. ; •

AIRS SMITH RELEASED. LONDON, Dec. 15. It is reported that Mrs Arkell Smith who masqimraded as Colonel Barker and was sentenced to nine months for perjury has been quietly released from prison. A GREEK SENSATION. ATHENS, Dec. 15. Vc.nezeios < a used a sensation in political circles by offering Tsaldaris to bold a plebiscite permanently settling whether Greece should lie ruled by a Republic or Monarchy. Tsaldaris is temporising, but a general agreement among the leaders is unlikely. At tlie last elections the Royalists wore crushingly defeated. A BEATIFICATION. ROME, Dee. 15. The beatification of 136 English martyrs Avas celebrated at the Basilica of St. Peter’s. It consisted of Philip Howard. Earl Rundel. and thirtyeight other laity, including three women, the remainder being priests martyred hetAveen 1594 and 1679 in the reigns of Henry VITI, Elizabeth, James I. Cromwell, and Charles 11. The Basilica was magnificently decorated Avith pictures of tlie martyrs performing miracles given prominence, amid blazing candles and an immense oogrogation, Avliich included English visitors. After reading the Papal Bull, announcing beatification, the relics Avore exposed, the To T)oum avus sung and the bells of St. Peter’s tolled, echoed by those of four hundred churches in Rome.

Investigation of the claims for beatification of 134 more English martyrs is proceeding.