GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SPIRIT OF TRUE RELIGION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Lomdon, June 9. The Rev. diaries Spun-, preaching in Regent Park Chapel, declared that the newspapers more often revealed the spirit of true religion than magazines and novels. A DEADLY DRUG. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Berlin, Juno 9. Professor Erliclti, gixing evidence in a libel ease, declared that salvarsan should not be given to children or persons Bllfjfering from affections of the heart or > nervous systems. AUSTRALIAN SINGER'S ENGAGEMKNTS. I London, June 9. E!sa Stadia in engaged at Covcnt Garden Opera House, and also at the Dalverno Opera House, Milan, in fjhe a,utuma. EMPIRE PRESS UNION. London, Juno 9. The Hon. Harry Lawson presided a* the Empire Press Union's luncheon to tic overseas' visitors, who included Mr Leys, editor of the Auckland Star. POOR SUITORS' APPEALS. London, Juno 9. Fourteen hundred poor suitors hare i appealed for legal assistance under tlhe new rules which are operative to-day. . Many are diTorce cases and others ehanjcery claims. j { THE SURREY EIRE.

London, June 9. About 3500 carcases of mutton on the Surrey, which is in dock at Avonnrouth, have been slightly injured by fire, PEDIGREE STOCK. London, June 9. The New South Wales Government have shipped by the Star of India for Hawkesbury College a berkshire boar, "two Tamworth boars, and three Tamworth bows, all pedigree animals not related to any previous importations. A MAN ELECTROCUTED. Sydney, June 9. A mari, named Duffy, while fixing ft sign on a balcony, caught hold of a live wiro and was electrocuted.