EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1351, 14 December 1885, Page 2

EUROPEAN ITEMS.

London, December 3. It is rsmored that Mr Childers, Chancellor of (he Exchequer in the Ist e Ministry, who has been defeated for hie former constituency by the Conservative candidate, intends contesting Chatham. The question whether the deposits lodged by colonists in banks in England are legally subject to Income t*x bus been referred to counsel. The opinion given on the' matter is that the banks may be made liable for the collection of the tsz. A letter appears in the Times this morning, stating that a p >wvrfut Committee rs being formed for th purpose of opposing the sbipping ring, which is endeavoring to maintain high frieghtage rates to Australia.

The management of the Bank of South Australia are taking steps to promote a Bill to extend the charter of the institution, and enable it to trade In London. Mr Gladstone is jnbilaut at the tarn the elections have taken. t ddressing a meeting of his constituents in Midlothian last i evening, he alluded to the proposal that has been made for a anion of the Tory and Moderate Liberal members in the House of Commons, and expressed himself as totally opposed to such a union, which, morever, he describes as impossible. Mr Richard Lalor, orother of Mr Peter Lalor, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in Victoria, who represented Queen's County as a Home Baler In the last Parliament, has been re-elected. London, December 4.

Harold George Parsons, who was until recently a student of the Church ot England Grammar School in Melbourne, baa gained one of the five Wadham Scholarships at Oxford. Mr Boraiily, Deputy High Commissioner, will be temporarily appointed High Commissioner of New Guinea, in succession to the late Sir P. Soratohley. It is regarded as probalbe that Mr Thnrstan will be offered the appointment. London, December 6. Lord Harrington, speaking at Matlock, in Derbyshire, condemned Mr Chamberlain’s extreme views, and ascribed the defeat sustained by the Liberal candidates for Boroughs to the colourless programme issued by Mr Gladstone. In consequence of Servia having declined to p»y an indemnity for the invasion of Bulgaria, Prince Alexander has announced that he will resume hostilities. London, December 7-

The statement that Sir J. Gorst, Solicitor-General, was to be appointed successor to Sir M. Lopes as J edge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, has proved to be premature. Samuel Grey, who has been arrested in Ireland on a charge of embezzling L3OO belonging to the Portland branch of the Union Bank, Victoria, a year ago, has been remanded nntil January, pending the arrival of further information. Bail has been refused.

Messrs Tyson and Co., who are en* gaged in an effort to break down the Australasian shipping ring monopoly, are nsing every effort to achieve their purpose, and state that they are resolved to persevere so long as the slighest prospect of final success remains.