BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16558, 23 May 1914, Page 11

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, A CLERGYMAN’S SACRIFICE. LONDON, May 21.

The Rev Lewis, of the Kingsway House Church, is sacrificing a salary of £6OO a year to seek personal poverty in Italy. In a letter to his congregation, he says that ho feels, the incongruity of being a man of God . and high-salaried. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

LONDON, May 21

Professor Benjamin Mooro will replace Professor Martin on the physiology section of the British Association.

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE. LONDON, May 22

Mr Henniker Heaton presided at a meeting of tlio Council of the British Empire League, when Mr Norton Griffiths moved, tiro Hon T. Mackenzie seconded, and Lord Lamington, Admiral Fremantle and others supported, a resolution to send tv deputation to the Postmaster-General for the purpose of retaining the penny per pound rate on newspapers sent to Canada and securing cheaper rates on newspapers and magazines sent to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. TO RECOVER POSSESSION. PARIS, May 21.

Baroness Vaughan invoked the help of the police to recover possession of the youngest son of the late King Leopold of Belgium from her divorced husband, Durroux. The police forced his residence at Neuilly. OFFICIALLY DENIED. PEKIN, May 22.

The report that Liu Kuan Hsing was negotiating for a loan with the Bethlehem Steel Trust is officially denied.