29 JUNE 1985, page 19

Printing Money

INVESTMENT managers, who hate hav- ing to think for themselves, are in for some unwanted exercise next month when Carl- ton Galleries comes to market. This is the new name for......

Bacon Slicers

TEXT for the Cabinet tax-cutters, as they wrestle with the consolidators: 'For their merchants, if they flourish not, a kingdom may have good limbs, but will have empty veins,......

Poisoned Barb

CHARACTER sketch at a City luncheon table: 'Yes, he's the El Cid of the market — leading his troops into battle, dead for 30 years with an arrow in his back.' No, not who you......

City And Suburban

Worse than the Crown Agents can it be possible? CHRISTO PHER FILDES T he dust settles over Threadneedle Street, and the Bank of England can be discerned, battered but in place.......

Texas Poor

THE luckless shareholders in L. Texas Petroleum (Deep in the heart of Texas': City and Suburban, last week) have now heard from their company, though not to their advantage. A......