24 AUGUST 1929, page 3

M. Diaghileff The Name Of M. Serge Diaghileff, Whose Death

we regret to record, will endure as that of a great artist, who carried the organization of the ballet into fields hitherto undreamed of, and who, by combining many arts in one,......

Vaccination New And Important Instructions In Regard To...

have been issued by the Ministry of Health. It is strange that these instructions should have been delayed so long, as they are based on Sir Humphry Rolleston's Report, which......

Bank Rate, 51 Per Cent., Changed From 41 Per Cent.,

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101; a year ago, 102*; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851; on Wednesday week......

The South African Cricketers Although The South African...

already lost the rubber, their play in the last of their matches against England positively extorts a few lines of praise. They made the highest score that South Africans have......

Coal And Common Sense A Further Conference Of Colliery...

held last week, has issued a statement which inspires con- fidence in the ability and willingness of the coal industry to achieve Rationalization by its own unaided efforts.......

The Free Zones On Wednesday A Decision Of The Permanent

Court of International Justice supported Switzerland's conten- tion in her long drawn-out dispute with France on the question of the Free Zones. For a matter of three hundred......

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, The...

zoologist, who has died at the age of 82, put the public deeply in his debt by his popular but scholarly elucidations of scientific subjects. As a young man he was a disciple of......