BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12708, 20 March 1911, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright ) LONDON, March 17.

Tho Bishop of London .states that he had practically decided to offer himself for missionary service* in Canada as an example to the Church, but only after three months' prayer came to the decision that work in London had prior claim upon Mm.

Tho University College School at Hampshire has decided to forego a £3000 yearly grant from the County Council which carried a condition that free scholarship^ be given io boam school scholars .The action is mainly duo to class prejudice by fee-paying scholars, and objections by parents. A statue of Florence* Nightingale is being erected in London. Another memorial consists of an annuity fund for the relief of distressed trained nurses.

Jaaon, the parent ship, and six subsidised trawlers will shortly be stationed at Grimsby. Three hundred fishermen are enrolling, and will be specially trained for mine sweeping, and be liable for service as reserves.

. The Right Hen. R, B. Haklane, in a circular through the Director of Army Contracts, announces that the minimum weight of quarters of Australian beef supplied under tho present contracts has been reduced to 160 pounds, or 130 in the cas« of forequai-ters, 'without flanks and briskets.

The Electric Lamp Trust reduces prices by one-third, following the institution of the Government's dissolution suit.

Viscount Morley, in the House of Lords, indignantly repudiated a charge that the Indian Government had failed to condemn attempts at torture and pressure- on thi-3 port^ of the Indian police.

OTTAWA, March 17. Uw? Government refused to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the failure of the Farmers' Bank at Toronto.

CALCUTTA, March 17. ~T ilp- "ewsPaper "Englishman" states that China proposes to prohibit the importation of Indian tea, and to reduce! the duty on the exported article . NEW YORK, March 17. __ lhreo citizens are included in the sndictments before t]i£< Federal grand jurvat Chicago alleging frauds in r>onnection with tho Alaskan coal land transactions against the United States t-overnmcait aggregating two millions sterling.