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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1452, 10 January 1887, Page 2

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The mail steamer wh>oh arrived at ancVland en Saturday night bring, the following: GENERAL SUMMARY, T!.e London Chamber of 0 .mm- roe has «mp!_at!oally endorsed the PostmasterGeneral's Amei-'cvi nsail policy. Tha ; iublin Nation save, i-» connection with a n oposul to s»nd a British "nvny to the V.it ( c»n, that Lord Iddealelgh asks for the r ght to fbject to uiidw.irabla appointments io 0 .tholic vacancies m 1 Great Briairi, md h .t the Pope answered to the t-ff> 't- >h_ persons who m any w y violated the Is.vr would no . be eno >uia-a._ cl a»iywhe<*e, a. t*ie Bpraadutg of th*. G'Spal of Peac9 wvs tha obj.ot of the • huroh An auct'on ss c >>f the blood s f ook belonging o tho Ute Fred Archer, the jnokry, wa« c >n_pl tod at N .wm.rket ou December 17 -d realised £3535 -Chilperii br -ugiit £'60. Lord Salisbury, on D.-cember 16 reduced th* rents of hi. h-dfietd E.tate .on-»rt;tq.2o-oercent- Higjixjynpie '« being gennrallv folio we_T~by larg.e Undo * fiftr r~ Me_srß Oowan and C.«, ship brokors aid merchants, of Olaß-ow, filed on _.ec.mber 17 for £100,000 .

The British ag._n_ at Ad^n ha* besu ssk'id by his Government to explain whst motive he had m removing the French fl»g at Dongarita, m Sam-inll, the plane being m 'be territory « v_r which both Eoghod and France clttm protection. An explanation is to ne - mad > at the reg eat of the Frenoh Government.

Five Welsh formers, leading ln the anti-tithe movement, wer > distrained for failing to pay tithes. Mr Gladstone wrl'es to 'he Welsh Liberal Association thl . he rsgards their deslgus with interest, but at his age he must leave the agitation to yonnger men. A desp^ch fron Z*"J_ibar to London on Dec. 14 says the Mirango of Ngando, with his forces, had defeated Ktirg Kngreba and 10.000 men. The Gemao ironclad Mswe had sailed from Zanzibar st that date to punish the murderers of of the explorer Jubilike. P;ioce Alexander of Bn'g .ria arrived In London on Deo. 8 The Q ieen deoorated him with the order of the Bath.

Two heavy failures w-.ro reported m London on Deo. 11. viz., Lord and Sons, general merchants, for £1 000,000, aud Edmund Davis, a West Jfcnd solicitor, for £100,000. A terrißc (Stale, accompanied by lightning and thunder, p eviiled on the night of Deoember 7 aud the morning of December 8 m the southern O.ujtios of Rnejaud and m the Channel, where a number of vessels were wrecked. At Brighton much damage was done. Throughout the kingdom rain and hail fell, and «h ' storm caused widespread disaster. In Scotland there waß a heavy fall of snow.

Thu Queen forbade the admission into the household of Windsor Castle, and within the Gwtlo preoinots, of newspapers o mtaining sensational reports of the OampbrtU divorce case. Mr Gladstone's disapproval of the antirent campaign m Ire Und was ex re-aed m a private letter to Dr Oamiron, member for Glasgow. The Scotch and other Liberal Associations are not aati-fi-d, and have asked Mr Gladstone fir a full and public declaration on the subject. A meeting of the holde» of Central Picsfio Railway bonds was h.-ld on Dec. 11 m London, Mr Joseph Price presiding. The Chairman said the Company was m the hands of Direoto/s who held no shook. A Committee was appointed to proteot the interests of English bondholder*.

A London despatch «>f Dec 13 aiys the projected exhibition of Mr Whts.ler'a pictures m N*w York ovmot come off. b_cause the owners refuse to allow them to cr...s the Atlantic.

The English Government have deoided to supply the Army with the Aus-rlan Fischer re ...ating r.fl.s. Herr Fisouer has gone to Lnndou to superintend the final trial of this rifle «t tGufield

Lord Tennyson's new book of poems, "Looksl.y 3«»1, Six^y Years A'tor," wa. published on Do. I. A cynical v.m of denuaoiat.-u o* draoC'itio opinion and aspirations runs through tho poems American correspondents m London are go. si ping freely oonceroin. thi» private affa ; rs of Royalty. A New York Tribune letter ot Pocember 16 says tha>. Q ieeu Victoria co itin-ies to favor the B .t en~ berg royal family. The feud is bee < ruing more bitter. The P'lnoe of Wale-* ignores the presenoe of Prlnoe Alexander at Windsor, and has remonstrated with the Queen for advancing him to thu rank of the Mdit .ry Cross of the Order .of the B.th, a grade to which Emperor Willi .m aud the Prlnoe Imperial of Germany belong. The reports from the British consuls m America on the .merioau horne.taad laws *.g about to be published. They agreo m pirating the operation of the laws, and f ay or their application to Euglani on the priuoiplo of tae exemption of personal property to a limited extent from sale un ler legal pooeis,