GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COLONIAL INSTITUTE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright 'London, June 24. A thousand attended the Colonial Institute's conversazione at the Natural History Museum. Miss Mabel Manson, of New Zealand, contributed a vocal selection,

ACTOR OBTAINS DAMAGES. Received 25, 8.45 p.m. Sydney, June 25. The action in which Arthur Shirley, an actor, sued George Willoughby for £IOOO damages, plaintiff alleged that the defendant had induced J. C. WilliamSon, Ltd., to break a contract with plaintiff, whereby he was prevented from obtaining employment and was injured in bis The jury awarded plaintiff £BOO damages. A stay of proceedings was granted.

PEERESSES AND UNPROTECTED GIRLS. Times and Sydneyi Sun Services. Received 25, 6.5 p.m. "London,' June 25. Three hundred peeresses will petition the House of Lords to-morrow to paBS as an urgent measure the Bishop of London's Criminal Law Amendment Bill in the interests of unprotected girls.

THE BULL-DOG BREED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 25, 6.5 p.m. New York, June 25. A private national movement is being commenced at San Francisco, embracing all British societies throughout the United States, to ensure Great Britain's representation at the Panama Exposition.