GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 49, 15 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SEX. 1 XSTK.UCTK.iX. By Cable.—Press Association, —Copyright London, July 13. Before tlie Venereal Commission, the headmasters of iiton and Harrow gave evidence that it was the ideal that set instruction should be given by parents. School instruction ought to De the special responsibility of the headmaster, exercising the greatest caution. ' TIIE BULGARIAN LOAX. Sofia, July 13. The colli ract with the German banks for tlie twenty million sterling loan has been signed. The Sobranje is discussing the terms. FIGHT AMOXti GIPSIES. Paris, July 13. A blood feud between gipsies at Auvergne ended in a pitched battle with gnus, revolvers, knives and hatchet 3. 'There were many casualties. Three companies of gendarmes dispersed them. A DOCK STRIKE. London, July 13. | Fifteen hundred have struck at the Mersey dock. If the strike eontiuues many liners will he imprisoned within the dock gates. lIAXDI IXG OF GRAIN 1 . Melbourne, July 14. Messrs Treple and Bath 'have submitted to the Railway Commissioners a comprehensive scheme for the bulk handling of grain, involving the. expenditure of £2,010.000. Xew South Wales and West Australia propose spending £BOO.OOO each on reinforced grain elevators and ha /e asked Victoria to cooperate. ■ A MOXK ,MUHD'EIiKD. St. Petersburg, July 13. A woman dhadowed a monk named Rasputin for a. fortnight, and fatally stabbed him in the village of I'okrovskv, Tobolsk. Rasputin was an illiterate Siberian peasant who gained great influence with the Czar as a miracle worker. lie i;ose to power in couit circles, and became an a;:ent for various political cliques. He exercised influence in the liellis case. A monk named lliodor was m.prisoned for thrashing and denouncing Rasputin as a false prophet. 1