GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 April 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

« —_ * NEWSPAPER FINED £IOO. BY ELECTJUC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. e£B ONITED PEBSS ASSOCIATION. I Received April 24, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April 23. . The Daily MaiF has been fined £IOO for contempt in hinting at a motive in the Baxter shooting case. A London Cable of April 16 stated:— Jeannio Baxter, a fashionably-dressed young widow, shot Bernard Hall, the well-known boxer and aeroplanist, dead in his flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. Baxter had been Hall's mistress. Yesterday he made his will in Baxter's favor. Baxter states that Hall asked her to shoot him. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS. Received April 24, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April 23. In the case in which Miss Hageby, the well-known anti-vivisectionist, sued Dr C. W. Saleeby, the noted eugenist, and the 'Pall Mall Gazette' for libel, alleging that they accused her of conducting a campaign of falsehood. Miss Hageby conducting her own case, a verdict was given for defendants. THE MARCONI INQUIRY.

Received April 24, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, April 23. At the sittings of the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the contract between the British Post Office and tho Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. Major Archer-Shee (Unionist member for Central Finsbury) warmly denied Mr Godfrey Isaacs' (president of the Marconi Company) insinuations and produced correspondence showing that he had declined to invest in the Poulsen syndicate. SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY. Received April 24. 11.30 a.m. LONDON. April 23. Hon. T. (New Zealand High Commissioner) and representatives of other States attendee! a function at Stratford-on-Avon and assisted in hoisting the dominions' flags. ENGLAND'S PATRON SAINT. Received April 24, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, April 23. St. George's Day was widely celebrated, roses being generally worn. The Duke of attended s<>rvice in St. Michael's and St. George's Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral.