GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 25 April 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A GAMING HOUSE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 23. The two principals of a gaming house in Charing Cross road were lined £250 and £IOO, or imprisonment for three months and six weeks respectively. OPIUM IN THE NAVY. Paris, April 23. There is a great outcry against the opium habit in the navy. There are IG3 opium dens at Toulon. CAPTAIN ECKFORT'S MURDER. London, April 23. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Frey, in reply to Sir J. D. Rees, said he had no ollicial information that the Persian troops had adequately punished the tribesmen who were guilty of Captain Eckford's murder. COTTAGES FOR LABORERS. London, April 23. Mr. Walter Runciinan, president of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at I Pershore, said the crying need of the ! countryside was cottages for agricultural laborers. Ninety thousand cottages were required within five years. The problem, required national financing. VIVISECTION. London, April 23. In the libel action which Miss Hageby, a well-known anti-vivisectionist, brought against Dr. Saleeby and the Pall Mall [ Gazette, the verdict was for defendants. A LIBEL CASE. London, April 23. The Daily Mail has been fined £IOO for contempt of court in hinting at a motive in the Baxter shooting case. [Jeannie Baxter, a fashionably dressed young widow, shot Bernard Hall, the well-known boxer and aeroplanist, dead in his flat in Shaftesbury avenue. Baxter had been Hall's mistress. The day before he made a will in Baxter's favor. Baxter states that Hall asked her to shoot him.].