GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

REGIMENT’S LONG ABSENCE

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RUGBY, April 21

The King sent by wireless message. a greeting to the First Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, of which lie is Colonel-in-Chief, and which arrived at Southampton to-day from Egypt, after 18 years’ service abroad. Tlio message read: “Since the battalion left these shores in 1914, it has seen much active service. I am proud to think my 'regiment won fresh laurels by its conduct in war and peace, and I wish all ranks a lia-ppy return to their homos and families.”

PARDON DECLINED. SACRAMENTO (California), April 21. The Governor of California, Mr Rolpli, after an exhaustive study cf testimony supplied hv Labour and Liberal leaders, has issued a report declining to pardon Tom Mooney, who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment in the San Quentin Penitentiary for the implication in the Preparedness Bay bombing at San Francisco in 1913 iii which ten were killed. Governor Rolpli is the fourth Governor to refuse clommiey to Mommy. The cape has roused public interest upon various occasions during the past decade.

N.Z, NOVELIST’S NEW WORK

LONDON, April 21

Jarroltls will publish Nellie Sean!ail's third novel. “Peneamny,” which deals with the fortunes of three generations of a New Zealand family, from the early pioneering days to the presentcentury. LABOUR WINS BY-ELECTION. LONDON. April 22. The Wakefield by-election resulted:— Mr A, Greenwood (Lab) 13.587 Air A. E. Greaves (Nat. Con.) 13.243

IN THE COMMONS

LONDON. April 22

The ’House of Commons passed all stages of the Bill to idenmnify successive Presidents of the Board of Trade against penalties imposed by an Act of Queen Anno, as wirelessed.