VICTORIAN TURF

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1914, Page 7

VICTORIAN TURF

STAKES DISTRIBUTED DURING;' RACING SEASON. • - (By Telejmph.—l'reM ABSociafclon.-'Copyright.'J (Received July 29, 9.30 <urn.) ], ' MELBOURNE, This/Day: Stakes totalling £196,000' were distributed in the metropolitan .area, during the current racing season. Tha' tottfl stakes distributed in Victoria amounted to £210,000. " '• '"* CRIMINAL LAW •*• • ' — » - BISHOP'S AMENDMENT BILL WITHDRAWN. • • \'' . , (By Telejraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received July 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 28th July. The Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram) withdrew his Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the ground that the amendments made rendered tho Bill uuworkablo. [In the House of Lords on 30th April, the Bishop of London moved tho second reading of r the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, which proposed to raise the age of consent from sixteen to eighteen, and! otherwise to increase protection for girls. Dr. Ingram declared that many girls bp* tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen! were on the London streets. "If girls' property is protected until they arc twenty-one," he ploaded, "it is surely right that their virtue Bhould be protected until they are eighteen." The present condition of- the _ law, lie added, was unworthy of a Christian State. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Huldano) feared that the raising of the ago would tend to produce cases of blacßmail. which were increa&ing in London. The Government did not oppose the Bill, which passed its second reading.] SCULLING AfINST JN TRAINING. (By Tel«groj)h.— Tresß AssoeitUon.— Copyright.) SYDNEY, 28th July. Dick AriTsL lias re-Ptartod training on the Parramatta River, and is reported to be in oxcellenl form. " From the mammal to the man.'* Geo. Fowlds. Ltd., are showing in their Manners-street, windows tho different processes in the manufacture of. felt ltyta,, It's interesting.— AdH.