BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]
PREHISTORIC N.Z
LONDON, August 17
Professor Keith, interviewed, said that he considered that the North Cape crockery, and the Kaingaroa carvings from New Zealand, are further evidence of the spread of the Egyptian civilisation to the Pacific. They were, he said, not connected 'frith the origin of the Maori race, which was more nearly related to the people of India than the Egyptians. ■ 0
Professor Keith said Elliot Smith had traced Egyptian mummification to New Guinea, dating fifteen hundred B.C. Egyptian sailors jhad probably reached •many of the islands in the Pacific. It took from five to eight hundred years for the Egyptian civilisation to reach Britain. It was.reasonable to assume that it took from three hundred to four hundred years to extend to the Pacific. /
He said that the skulls of the Maoris and the Egyptians did not indicate a relationship.
MIRACLE OF ELIJAH. LONDON. Aug. 17
The “Daily Express’s” Jerusalem correspondent writes: “The reported discovery of petroleum on the Jaffa coast has caused excitement among Biblical scholars who suggest it provides a new explanation of controversies, instancing the Elijah miracle when lie ordered water to be poured over a bullock and prayed for heavenly fire to consume it, thus confounding the priests of Baal.. It is now claimed it was petroleum which Elijah ignited under cover of praying over the bullock.
OSEPEL EXPLOSION. VIENNA, Aug. 17. The . Hungarian police arrested Czccho-Slovakian workmen employed in a factory, and charged them with causing the Osepel explosion. It is alleged this was due to ill-feeling between Czeelio-Slovakia and Hungary in connection with the Peace Treaty’s distribution of territory.
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