GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

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AN ANCIENT FIND

ROME, Aug. 29. Archaelogists have unearthed at Cyrene a marble slab on which is inscribed the will of the Egyptian King, rtolemy VIII., bequeathing his kingdom to the Romans in the event of his death without an heir. MISS BONDFJELiD SPRAINS HER ANKLE. RUGBY, Aug. 27. While going for a bathe at Trevarnon Bay, near Padstow, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labour, fell on some pebbles and fractured an ankle. She was removed to a nursing home at Bodmin. HIGH COMMISSIONER OF EGYPT. RUGBY, Aug. 27. Sir Percy Lorraine, who has been appointed to succeed Lord Lloyd as High Commissioner in Egypt, left London to-day to take up his post. INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARED. LONDON, August 29. The Bank of Australasia lias declared an interim dovidend of seven shillings a share. STATEMENT DENIED. (Received this dav,at 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 29. Marr declares that there is not a ■vestige of truth iiv the report that at a. meeting of the Empire’s Geneva delegates, the Irish Free State demanded complete independence of action at the forthcoming assembly. Tt. is stated that no such meeting was held. There was an informal conference of a few Dominion delegates on different subjects, on which Ireland was in complete agreement with the others.