GENERAL CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(PBEM ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.]

Sir Robert Balfour was entertained at luncheon at San Francisco by the Panama Exhibition authorities. In the course of a speech he declared that Great Britain was likely to reconsider her decision against exhibiting. Her non-participation was not due to unfriendliness, but to the fact that the interests most likely to benefit had not responded fittingly. The Hon. T. Mackenzie farewelled 50 youths sailing from London by the suffolk.

A license has been granted to Marconi’s Poldhu .station to conduct a wireless commercial service with Spain. Sir William Watson, in a letter to the newspaper “Grocer,” suggests that all cold-stored butter and frozen meat should be labelled as such and sold in the same way as margarine. Sir R. S. Baden Powell is appealing for £250,000 for the Boy Scout movement. The Mercers Company, of which he is master, has contributed £l2OO. The Prefect of Police at Paris is starting classes for the training of members of the force in common sense and in the best methods of meeting various situations. These include a display of films showing street accidents, a political agitation, a foreign lady in distress, and how to handle the various cases, various cases.kk

Mr. Lesory, director of the Sydney Zoo, states that a pure strain of the Australian dingo no longer exists. Probably a distant strain of sheep dog runs through the dingoes, even in the few remainnig unexplored corners of the continent.

The Sir William Lyne Memorial Committee have decided to place a marble bust of the late statesman in Federal Parliament House.—Press Association.