Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 179, 30 August 1929, Page 2

Round the World

VARJOUS HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTERESTji 3y Telegraph -Press Association— Copyright Will Of A King. Archaeologists have unearthed at Cyrene a marble slab on which is mscribed the will of the Egyptian King Ptoleniv VIII., bequeathing his kingdom to the Romans in the event of his death without lieir. Study Of Tubercuiosis. The Medical Research Council has announced that it has received from Mrs Odo Cross the sum of £40,000 as an endowment trust for the establishment of research fellowships for the 6tudy of tubercuiosis. Craf Zeppelin. The Graf Zeppelin is expecting to arrive at Lakehurst round about seven fco-morrow morning. She swung for a moment over Canadian teritory above Windsor (Ontario), and then swung back over (Detroit) and followed the Lake Erie shoreline towards Cleveland, where she was awaited expectantly by at least 100,000 visitors. Brltain's Birth Rate. A hirtli rate of 16.7 per 1000, the t owest recorded, with oue exception, since the establisliment of civil registration. and a death rate of 11.7 per 1000. which, with two exceptions, is also the lowest recorded, are the outstanding features of a statistical review of the nation's population for 1928 issued by the Registrar-General. Trade Relations. Closing a five weeks' tour of British Columbia, Mr R. B. Bennett, Federal Conservative leader, speaking at Fernie, again contended that the New Zealand trade treaty liad worked to the disadvantage of Canada and destrovcd the Canadian dairy indusfry. ]t had reduoed the nutnber of cows, increased the price of meat, and made tlie Dominion a dependent country for butter. He declared, "Our party will never consent to a transaction or treaty which will destroy any industry indigenous to Canada."