Cable Jottings
PHARAOHS
WlLL.—Archaeolo-
gists have unearthed at Cyrene a marble slab, on which is inscribed the will of the Egyptian King Ptolemy HU., by which he bequeaths his kingdom to the Romans in the event of his death without leaving an heir. —A. and NZ.-P.A. £40.000 FOR RESEARCH. —The British Medical Research Council announces that it has received from Mrs. Odo Cross a sum of X 40.000 as an endowment of a trust for the establishment of research fellowships fox the study of tuberculosis. —British Official Wireless. IMPERIAL AFFAIRS. —The Minister of Justice. Mr. E. Lapointe, will represent the Canadian Government at a meeting to be held in London on October S of a committee set up to consider and make recommendations in regard to the legal points raised at the last Imperial Conference. —A.P.A.U.S. BRITISH VITAL STATISTICS. —A statistical review of Britain*® population for 1928 was issued by the Registrar-General. This showed that the birth-rat** was 16.7 per 1.000. the lowest recorded with one exception since the establishment of civil registration. The death-rate was 11-7 per LOOO. That, with two exceptions, also was the lowest recorded —British OfTi - WireleM, __
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 9
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