BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15333, 16 June 1910, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. CAMBRIDGE WRANGLERS. LONDON, June 14. Mr F. W. Spargo, of Melbourne, is ono of the twenty-four wranglers at Cambridge. SPAIN AND THE VATICAN. Tlio Vatican has protested against a royal ordor issued at Madrid authorising non-Catholic church missions to exhibit external signs of their beliefs on the walls of their churches. A HANDSOME GIFT. Mr David,Rankin, a farmer, who has boon living almost as a recluso at St Louis, United States, and had already given £30,000 for a College, has given a further sum of £600,000 to endow a trade school bearing his name. PROMOTIONS. (Received Juno 16, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. Lords Dudley and Islington have been promoted to bo Knights of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. A SENSATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, Juno 15. A sensation has been caused by the publication of the facsimile of a letter written by Ahmed Samin Bey, a few days before he was murdored, informing his friends that the Committee o‘ Union and Progress had. sentenced him to death.