LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3962, 9 February 1882, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

[per s.s. heko, ruoM sydnfa\] London, January 80. — Trickett's friends ami admirers in England are anxious to match him against Hanlan again. The matter has been talked over with Hanlan and his backers, aud Hanlan expressed willingness to row Trickett for £500 a-side aud the championship, but Tricktt's London friends can only raise £200. j London, January 31. — Fifteen per- j sons have been arrested for being con- { corned in the murder of two bailiffs, whoso bodies were found m Lough Mask, a lake in the west of Ireland. | A horrible agrarian outrage is reported to have been perpetrated iv : Ireland ; a farmer being roasted alive for paying hia rent. . -^aa.^.

Extensive military preparations are being carried out iv Austria to cope with the insurgent rising in Bosnia, Dalmatia, aud Herzegovina. An anr>y of 65,000 men will be placed in the field, for active service. ConsTderable feeKhglias been displayed of late by the Egyptiau natives against the foreign inhabitants of the country, -owing to the influence exercised by European Powers over the affairs of Egypt. The ill-feeling of natives at Tanihi, situated on the M.immata branch of the Nile, culminated yester- ' day iv a rising against the Europeans of the town, which, however, was soon suppressed by the authorities. London, February 5. — An examination of the accounts of the Union Generalo Bank, in Paris, which has suspended payment, has disclosed a ! deficiency of 0,000,000 francs. The prosecution of several high personages' connected with the institution is considered probable. i The office of the Xew York Tiuir* has ! been destroyed by fire. Many lives are believed to have been lost during the conflagration.