Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

GIFT TO UNIVERSITY.—Viscount Rothermere, formerly Mr. Cecil harmsworth, has given £30,000 to university College, London, to endow a t-nair of Modern English Literature, in memory of his brother. Lord Northchffe.— A. and N.Z. BRITAIN’S MILLIONAIRES—There *f e 562 millionaires in Britain and northern Ireland, according to the mtest Blue Book dealing with inland avenue. This gives the number stated sypfcr-tax payers who have incomes £50,000 or more a year.—A. and N.Z. KING’S BENCH JUDGES. —The two new Judges in the King’s Bench Divi(Uon are Mr. Ernest Bruce Charles, who 'Vill be the fourth bachelor on the ifc'hch, and Sir Travers Humphreys, tw latter has been briefed in most of jne leading criminal trials in recent years. XS.W. AGENT-GENERAL. —Sir George Fuller was entertained at SydJ} ey at a fare well banquet prior to his departure for London to assume the •Jpnt-GenereJship of New South '•'ales. The Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, other politicians, eulogised him for long political services to the State. -A. snd N.Z . COTTON WORKERS’ WAGES.— English cotton workers have ace Pted the employers’ invitation to a further meeting. The object is to remove misunderstandings regarding the imposed reduction in wages and exiXJ Sicn °* working time, and to ento reach a peaceful agreement. USE OF POISON GAS.—The French foreign Minister. M. Briand. has redded the 37 nations which signed the *|R‘eement to renounce the use of Sas in warfare that only France *nd Venezuela have ratified it. Con--0 ? Uent ly, the agreement at present is juy operative as between those two lowers.— A. and N.Z. i