GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1929, Page 9

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

JERICHO EXPLORATIONS.

(Australian Frees Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, March 23

The ’’Daily Telegraph” announces that the site of the ancient city of Jericho will be subjected to a thorough archaelogical exploration next season, under the direction of Professor John Garstang. The expense will be shared by Lord Melchett and Sir Charles Araton.

GREEK NAVY.

ATHENS, March 22.

The Minister of Marine and the British Minister to Greece have signed an agreement for the despatch of a British Naval Mission to Greece for ten years.

SUNKEN BULLION.

LONDON, March 23.

A new attempt is being made by an Italian company to salve one million sterling worth of bullion which was sunk off Brest in the “Pandos” and the “Egypt” during war time. The salvers are using the latest diving apparatus, enabling the divers to work for several hours at a depth of two hundred fathoms.

NOVA SCOTIA PARLIAMENT

HALIFAX, March 23

The membership of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly has been reduced from 43 to 38 by a Bill which has ■been given its third reading, on division, by 19 to 17.

EDITOR SHOT.

LONDON, March 23.

At Zagrab, some men, who were waiting in a motor car, shot dead Herr Schlegel, the editor of the newspaper “Novosti” when he was entering his own house. Political motives are suspected.

EARL ASQUITH’S. RE-BURIAL.

LONDON, March 24.

The body of the Earl of Asquith and Oxford was exhumed this morning in the early hours, and transferred to a 'new grave, twenty yards distant.