GENERAL SUMMARY. London, April 12.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 May 1885, Page 6

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, April 12.

The Berlin newspapers of the 11th comment on the fact that Queen Victoria did not send congratulations to Bismarck on his birthday. All the other rulers sent felicitations. The father-in-law of Sheehan, who vas arrested in New Zealand charged with the Castletownroche murder, has committed suicide. It is claimed that at the next Parliamentary election a large majority of Liberals will be returned, and that Mr Gladstone will then retire in favour of Lord Ilartington, The Volunteer Review at Brighton, on 6th April, had to be considerably curtailed, owing to a heavy rain which set in eaaly in the morning, A firm at Birmingham has made two million cartridges during six months, last past, for China. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, now in London, proposes to visit the United States at the end of April. The London merchants, Scaramarga and Co, failed on March 25th for £1,00),000, cause by decline in the wheat market Charles Price and Co.'s oil mills at Belvidere, Kent, were burned on the 29th Loss, £20' ',000. Martin Farquhar Tupper has been reduced to poverty. A London stockbroker, name not given, absconded on March 31st with a large amount of securities, and leaving £175,000 liabilities. 25,000 Yorkshire colliers struck against a ten per cen*>. reduction of wnges on March 31st. The Parliament of Switzerland has restored to the Cantons their right of local option in regard to the sale of inioxicating liepurs. Brandy drinking has grown to frightful proportions, and profound agitation forced the Government into this concession. Wholesale arrests of anarchists, chiefly Gormans and Auptrians, were made at Berne and Zurule on April 3rd.