NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

2.070 YEARS OLD. iIO.ME. April 23. Italy to-ilay celebrated with much m:\gnilii em e the ’2.0701 h .mniver-ary oi tli> Inundation of Rome. 11l the capital Signor .Mussolini. Hie Fasii-t I’reinier, hintself revie’.vetl 20.000 iii.-i: el the Fascist National Militia, and heard them lithe an oath of absolute In it It fulness to lit' country and unquestioning, iron obedience to the Eitseist leaders. Afterwards the Fascist, with Afnsso- i liui at their head, marched through the main thoroughfares amid extraordinary cut liu-iasm. BOYS’ BETS OX lIYAIXS. LOXDOX. April 23. I At a I'iirdiff meeting on Sunday the Rev 3 .Phillip Roger-, a Congregational minister, in condemning gambling. -aid be lmd heard that even tin? j boys in the gelicri"- 1 e! oo the tiomhct's | of t he b vines given out. BETTING TR At ■ EDY. 1 GXDOX. Ap'-il 23. | A i1.m1,!" t riigcdy. which I- ■ tated to j In' due to belting losses am! geui'fid | tinam ial dillietthies. wa- revealed on I Saturdiiv night, v. I,■ ■ll Air Thomas Smith j lev and his wife were found dead in their lams.’ in Earl-held-road. Wand— j wort It. S.A\ . Built Smalley and bis wife were <>s> years eld and had a]>pai’enlly been dead j for tit least 21 hours before being tlis- j covered. ‘ Airs Smalley bad been shot through , the bead and by bis side was a revnl- J