LATE HOME NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1498, 9 February 1882, Page 2

LATE HOME NEWS.

The following items of European news, telegraphed to Australian papers up to Jan. 25th } are to hand per the Te Anau at the Bluff :— The settlement on the London Stock Exchange, which commenced to-day, 24th was looked forward to with considerable anxiety, owing to the recent panic on the Paris Bourse, and the depreciation in the value of several foreign stock. The settlement commenced . steadily, and terminated to-day. Only one large failure is announced as the result of the recent financial panic. Sixteen persons, arrested on suspicion of being members of Moonlight's band, and accused of being the authors of the outrages on the Earl of Cork's tenantry, have been tried at the Cork assizes. They were found guilty and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The Government have received intelligence of an extensive and dangerous conspiracy in the coimties of Clare and Limerick, Ii eland. Prompt measures are being taken for its suppression. Preparations are being made for the despatch of more troops to the disaffected districts. Earl Granville has intimated, in a despatch to the United States Government, that the English Government uphold the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, according to which works like the Panama Canal would be matter of European as well as American concern. Following this, it is announced that President Arthur has revoked the policy enunciated by the Secretary of State (Blame) treating the canal as a local matter, entirely within the control of the United States. The execution of Guiteau for the assassination of the late President Garfield, has been fixed for the 30th of June next. The police have arrested forty persons for interfering with and attacking hunting parties in Clare and Limerick, Ireland. Great success has attended the floating of the New Zealand Grain Agency Company, with a capital of £1,000,000. Applications for sharps have been received in excess of the capital to be subscribed. Speaking at a meeting of the Colonial Institution last night, Sir Bartle Frere advocated the policy of the Colonial Governments being allowed to deal with the natives and native affairs untrammelled by interference by the Imperial authorities. The German police have seized all copies of the London Punch that were offered for sale in Berlin, on account of caricatures which recently appeared in it. They considered that their tendency was to bring Government into ridicule and contempt. It is rumored in European political circles that grave complications among Great Powers are impending, and that war is likely to break out in the ensuing spring. Austria is said to be making great warlike preparations, and hostilities between that Power and Italy are said to be imminent. The Austrian Government is incensed at the publication in Vienna of newspapers in which it states that a defeat was inflicted on the Austrian troops at Gatchiko, Herzgovina, at the hands of the insurgents, and has issued a manuscript prohibiting, under heavy penalties, the publication in the Vienna Press reports of the operations of the troops engaged against the insurgents. Several papers in Vienna having, however, contrived to do so, they were summarily seized and the machines confiscated. Murderous outrages against the Jews of Russia and Germany are still continuing. The house of a Jewish family at Linnosky was attacked, and aH the members of the family, three in number, brutally murdered. A plob has been discovered to assassinate King George of Greece, brother of the Princess of Wales, during his visit to Corfu, one of the loniau Islands, amongst which he has lately been travelling. The chief conspirators and several suspected persons have been arrested. Great rejoicing was manifested in Berlin when the news arrived of the downfall of Gambetta and his Government. His hostile attitude towards Germany since the war of 1870-71 has caused him to be regarded as a dangerous enemy of the Empire. A memorial, prepared in London for presentation to the Emperior of Russia, on the bubject of outrages to which the Jews were recently subjected, is signed by Baron de Rothschild, the Consul-Gen-eral for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and other influential personages, but Prince Lobanoff, the Russian ambassador at London, declined to forward it to His Imperial Majesty. Trickett's friends and admirers in England are anxious to match him against Hanlan again. The matter has been talked over with Hanlan and his backers, and Hanlan expressed his willingness to row Trickett for £500 aside, and the championship, but Trickett's London friends could only raise £200. Fifteen persons have been arrested for being concerned in the murder of the two bailiffs whose bodies were found in Lough Mask, Ireland. A horrible agrarian outrage is reported to have been perpetrated in Ireland. A fanner was roasted alive for paying his rent.

Londox, February 1. The office of the New Yor7c Times has been totally destroyed by fire. Many lives are believed to have been lost during the conflagration. Sir Henry Parkes is still in San Francisco, and has had interviews with the leading officials of the city. He has been courteously received by all, and been shown over several public institutions and Government depdts of the city. With regard to the wool duties, the opinions of leading politicians at San Francisco gave little encouragement to hope that Sir Henry's mission in this, respect ' will 1 prove successful. The general belief in political circles, as far as can be ascertained, is that proposals for a remission' of' duties' on Australian wools cannot be entertained by the Go-,-vemment of ; the tUnited (States, beingi inconsistent with, the protection policy of the republic^ - „ ,

',- British' ilNDiA,Tnow ! takes a larger 'quaritity^.of/JJnglish produce^ than, ,'any pther country. ' In 1869 it occnpied only the tWrcl place.