NEWS FROM HOME
ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.
(United Press Association—By Electiic i’eiegrapn—Copyright).
LONDON, April 29.
It is understood that the plans for the departure of Their Alajesties for Canada, in the liner Empress of Australia, will be precisely similar to those maue for the departure in H.Ai.S. Repulse. Their Majesties will leave Waterloo Station by special train soon after midday" on May, 6, for Portsmouth, whence the Empress of Australia will sail. ; TERRITORIAL RECRUITS IN BRITAIN. LONDON, April 29. Forty thousand territorials enlisted in the first three weeks in April, exceeding the number ior the whole of 1936. " , : CANON FOUND DEAD. , LONDON, April 30. Reverend Canon Wade, aged 57, Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, has been found dead in a gas-filled room at the vicarage. Canon Wade, who was a widower for five years, recently announced his engagement to Aliss Alargaret Adcock, who is 18 years of age. Since then lie had received shoals of anonymous “poison pen” letters, which Canon Wades described as “so filthy and scurrilous that I had to have them censored before. I have dared to read them.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1939, Page 4
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