GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

gave himself, away.

A BURGLAR’S ACCOMPLICE

[United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright].

LONDON, January 18

A man named Ponsonby, a burglar was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. On leaving the dock at the Wiilesden Police Court, another man stood up in the gallery and signalled by hold ing up his . two thumbs and smiling in the dirction pf the prisoner. “Why! That, is the other man. 1 saw his face against the window” cried a woman witness. The signaller was immediately arrested and charged with burglary. , DUKE OF WESTMINSTER’S MARRIAGE. LONDON, January 18. In connection- with the Duke of Westminister’s marriage, which will take place early in February, the “Daily Express” states that the marriage settlement will be £IO,OOO, NEW PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, Jap. 19. Following protests against the use of the 1928 Prayer Book, at Exeter Caihodral, more than one hundred people took part in a procession to the Cathedral carrying banners appealing to the Government to restrain the Bishops from introducing nn “illegal unscriptural Prayer Book.” A large crowd witnessed a copy oi the 1928 Book soaked in petrol, being burned in the Cathedral close.

A GREEK FEAR. LONDON, Jan. 20. An Anthens correspondent states the newspapers are commenting on the reported Turko-Soviet agreement for the free passage of Soviet warships through the Dardanelles, and consider the Mediterranean Powers are menaced thereby. JAPANESE POLITICS. (Received this clay at 8 a.m.l TOKYO, January 21. The Emperor has returned from Hnyania to Tokyo to-day. The Diet reopens to-morrow. The Government are facing a substantial opposition majority and are prepared for an immediate dissolution although it is understood influential of the Privy Council and Upper House disapprove of Government devoting attention to the elections during the Naval Conference. AN INDIAN SCENE. DELHI. Jan. 20. The opening of the Legislative Assembly was marked by a scene. With a view to obviating further bomb outrages similar to last April, the Chief Commissioner at Delhi bad posted a number of police in the galleries claiming that responsibility for protection of members lives lay with him, : Patel (Speaker of the Assembly! who is a strong Swarajist, claiming that the authority of the chair must be vindicated, abruptly ordered all , police out, and declined to allow Grerar (Leader of the House) to make a statement.