LATEST EUROPEAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 678, 12 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN.

London, January 9, Evening,

The tenders for the Victorian four million loan, at 4 per cent., were opened today. Tne total amount offered was found to be £455.000, at prices ranging from £100 to Tenders are now invited, until Monday next, for the unallotted balance of £3,554,500 at the minimum previously fixed of par. Received January 10, 10 p.m. London, January 10. The death is announced of Sir Samuel Martin, formerly one of the Barons of the Exchequer, aged 82. FRANCE AND EGYPT. Received January 11, 11.15 p.m. Pabis, January 10. The French press discussing the circular note issued by England to the Powers, explaining its intentions in regard to Egypt, urge that France should hold fast to its position in that country. THE PRINCESS LOUISE. New York, January 10. Tho Princess Louise is now at Charleston, South Carolina, and remains there for the winter: Her Royal Highness is greatly improved in health. A TERRIBLE FIRE. A serious fire occurred to-day at one of the leading hotels in Milwauke, Wiscousin. The building was completely destroyed, and seventy-six persons perished in the flames. ARABI AND TIB FRIENDS. Arabi and tha leading Egyptian rebels, who have been exile 1 to Ceylon, arrived to -day from Suez.