GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 309, 22 May 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BREACH OF COPYRIGHT. By Cable—Press Association—CopyrightLondon, May 20. Marie Corelli is suing George Gray, the so-called "fighting parson," for infringing the copyright of her novel, '•Temporal Power," in a Music Hall sketch. THE THEATRICAL SQUABBLE. London, May 20. Hansen, the American actor, who assaulted Arthur Bourchier, has been admitted to bail. THE PRESIDENT OF CUBA. Havana, May 20. General Maria Menocal, has been inaugurated as president. The fears of riots proved groundless. THE DRESDEN BANK EMBEZZLEMENT. Berlin, May 20. Briining, a messenger who decamped jlast June with £13,000 belonging to the Dresden Bank, has been sentenced to 4% years' imprisonment, and his four accomplices to lesser terms. DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. Capetown, May 20. A mail-bag, containing' £SOOO in bank notes, has been stolen from a train bound from Capetown to Pretoria. ' DEPORTATION OF UNDESIRABLES. New York, May 20. Fearing a mob at San Diego would tar and feather them, as they had done previously, the police arrested) Emma Goldman and Dr. Ben Lietman and deported them beyond the State limits. PROHIBITION OF GAMBLING. Paris, May 20. The Chamber • adopted) by a large majority, an amendment to the Gambling Bill, prohibiting casinos within a hundred kilometres of Paris or in University towns. A SENTENCE COMMUTED. Sydney, May 21. The executive has commuted to imprisonment for life the death sentence on the youth Lindsay, who shot the wife of a farmer for wliom he worked. THE WILLOCHRA. - Sydney, May 21. The Willochra will replace the Aorangi on the San Francisco run in Sep-' tember.

A UNIQUE ASSOCIATION. Sydney, May .21. A unique limited liability company has been formed and registered in Sydney. It is not out for profit. The memorandum of association says that it is formed for charitable purposes and named the British Immigration League, New South Wales branch. Its objects include the opening of agricultural areas in New South. Wales, settling immigrants on the land, fostering the immigration of rural workers, and domestics, also such artisan labourers as can be absorbed without congesting the labour market.