BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1923, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TOMB BURLED AO AIX. LONDON, I'Vb 23. A Luxor mc.ssngn says: The las! visit ol Liu l season lias been paid to Tut Ankh Anien’s tomb. Twenty men are now installing an airtight and water-tight door, in ease of a cloudburst. which occurs occasionally in tlm Luxor district. The tomb will Hum be reburied under a hundred tons oi earth to keep out roldxirs. Meanwhile the. archaeologists will continue exaniining the treasures already taken out. preserving them prior to their dispatch t„ Cairo. This is being done in the abandoned tomb of Sett the Second The work includes reconstructing royal robes and a corselet of links of gold, resembling the Crusaders’ chain arm-

our. f Main ai-chaelogists disapprove of inkino" the mummy and other discoveries t.r Cairo. Tin y say if the wooden art treasures are kept- ill the damp an Cairo Museum, they will be Imp;, iosslv decaved in twenty years, amt tliev urge that a special museum he Imiit in Cairo to lmu.se the things taken from the Kotal and other tombs oil tlm l.uxor Hills. ■ A vigorous controversy is also goi „ on as to whether proper respect is >ei„.r shown to the dead, especially as tlmir religion attaehol special mipoitto tlm tombs being untampeied "'sir Hider Haggard’s suggest urn that Tut Ankh Anmn and other royal tilt. ■ u ,i s should be reburied in the di.i."of the Creal Pyramid, t hoops. Vi..,, should be t, nil II v sealed frmi, H.e lvillK eves of tourists, ts being widely ai>proved. , i. lord (hiriiavon is anxious ' Tut Ankh Amen's sarcophagus m l.uxor Hills.

twin com pa kf.il LONDON. Kel. 21. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr g Baldwin, in the House ol Commons, tabled the following comparison M present, British and French ti.x.it.on : n the I'ni’ted Kingdom, dueet LI per head, indirect CO 2s per capita; m From-. £3 (is 3d. and £2 <is : "> rnitei! States £2 1 is and £- )>■

Bli ITISH POLITICS

LONDON, Feb 21. In ilie House of Commons. Mr M-.rre moved tlm second reading ol a - prcvioiislv bad been pass. <1 time the House of Lords, permitline local authorities .by a tire; -l >, 1 inejmiiy .to adopt pn.porl imml n|

"Mr'Bndgc.uan said the Ministry "‘mV oi , i-y "mtntion. It "its , , ~ ..i-tioHal representation. IM liour 'v mid ''are gamed m Mm i•- " ’ Oman -iron !> "l>»"" ll tlm |i„ Jovkiae.i that proportional • . . i .1 --prions n** n ,„iv- illation I'" 11 " 1 ii j., ■ | . p, f • unable t' l of a- t ■overitiiK lit ' 1 - ~.,-rv on. No ” ~,, ~ • mat ion would haw • - Mm last election. It ■' mnjni 1 1\ .it ' .sentntum "I svstem lor I’m '

minorities. w-<) vo •[’!„. Bill was I',’leeied by '■ Lo IA 7.