GENERAL SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1503, 10 March 1887, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(European Datas up to February 14' h )

Sir Charles Dilke has been left a fortune of nearly £200,0" 0 by a distant relative. The Loudon "Times," of February 2c d, published a letter sigaed by thirteen passengerß of tho atenmHhlp Umbria proteat|pg against making gambling hells out of the smoking rooms of Atlantic liners. Thay cay the Umbria waa the resort of decoys of the unwary. One youth lost all the monay he had, and, m despair, attempted to jump overboard. Lord Colin Campbell's library waa sold by auction m Edinburgh . The books were n>ainly Scotch. The proceeds will not go far towards pivlng the coat of his recent Bait- The bill handed m amounts to £13,600, and this, unless paid, will land Lord Colin m bankruptcy. The Army Eatmates o the British Government this year will lnolude funds for the new repeating rifle, the defence of Home ports and equipment of submarine mining oorps for th« Clyde, Mersey, Tyne, Tay, and Severn Riyera and Belfast Bay The War and Navy Departments will thus be enabled to make a concerted defence m case of a sadden attack on any of the above ports. It has been deolded to adopt the Leo American rlfla for uae m the Brit ; sh army.

On January 31st Baron Denman moved In the House of Lords the second reading of the Woman's Suffrage Bill, and on the motion of the Marquis of Salisbury Lord Danmau's motion wa« rejected without a division. *

Aoting upon his physioiaa'a advice Mr Parnell will go abroad to recover his health. He 1b said to be suffering from pulmonary disease, and to be dangerously ill. Id case of Mr Parnell'a re'iieraent Mr Healy is spoken of as hio successor. The ParaellitSß will oppoae m Parliament all of the projeota relative to the Hquor traffic In Ireland, on the ground that tbe question should be reserved for an Irish Parliament.

Minera on Btrike at Blantyre, Scotland, engaged m a riotous demonstration on February Bth They looted a number of ■hops, and the polica had 1 1 b 9 called cut The miners' strike was reported to be spreading m Sootland, but latest despatches speak of it abating, The West London Commercial Bank tailed on February Bth. The concern did ft small business, consisting mostly m loam to tradesmen.

The stook market openod woak m London on Janaary 29th, under Vto influence Of a tremendous war scarp. Holders soli large amounts of stock about 75,000 ohares In the aggregate. A shirp rally followed, on sober second thought that the alarm war groundless.