ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4204, 18 January 1879, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Oeox oub owir cobbbsfoitdest.]] Auckland, January 16. A despatch from Nashville, Tennessee, reports a terrible fight between revenue officers and smugglers, in which six men were killed on each eide. Hongkong adrieea report Asiatic cholera mri sting there. The American Government propose to quarantine all vessels from Hongkong. The Sioux Indians ml Dacotah territory assembled to the number of 2000 warriors, and are supposed to be preparing for war on a gigantic scale. Governor Gndalajara, of Mexico, having decreed an extraordinary tax of 1 per cent, on real property, and., capital, the citicens assembled to protest. The troops were called out and many prominent citieens killed. The emancipation of glares is proceeding in Cuba. Fire thousand were freed in thirty d»Ti.' During election quarrels at Louisville, some men erased with whisky charged through the streets, brandishing knives and revolvers. Four persons were killed and seven wounded. The military suppressed" the riot. A. terrible eteaaVboat collision occurred on the Missiseipi between the steamers Morgan and OottonvaHey. Twenty lire* were lost. At Terrihant a blast being fired broke through a thin wall of coal, and exploded an accumulation of gas with a tremendous conclusion. Sixteen were killed or died of suffocation. A serious rebellion has broken out in Kingkiung, under General Li, who has 50,000 men, and is carrying all before him. Abbe Debaize proposes to penetrate Central Africa. H. M. Stanley advocates a railway from Zanzibar to Lake Nyania, and thinks a grand trade could be developed in Central Africa, affording employment for English looms. . The French also project a railway from Algiers to Timtractoo. Dupouchel, the engineer, thinks the water difficulty could* be surmounted An extraordinary story was circulated that Cyprus wa9 required to ensure England possession of Captain Burton's gold discoveries in Midian and Hedjax. Gold discoveries are also reported near the Hindoo Koosh, on the river Uli. The iron screw steamer Kate Whitley, from Oalveston to Havre, was totally wrecked at Bermudas. A portion of the cargo was saved. On the Boston railway a train recently fell off an embankment. Twenty persons were injured. The recent conspiracy in Constantinople was a serious attempt to replace the Sultan by his brother Keshad Pasha. The Sultan had to be disea&ded from execnting Keshad and MahommondDaid Pasha. The former is confined to the Seraglio. It is reported in club and military circles that Count Schonvaloff intends to propose the Duke of Edinburgh as Prince of Bulgaria. A letter was received threatening the King of Denmark with assassination. A box of Oraini bombs was seized at Hamburg. Captain George Graham Duff, on the retired list of the Eoyal Navy, died 21st November, of wounds received while storming the Gate Pa in 1864. William S. Lyster has succeeded in forming an [Operatic Company in England, consisting of Madame Bose Hersee, Miss Alma Pelma, Charles Graznor, Signor G. Verdi, Signor Ugo Anglera, with Mr Howell as stage director. The opera season will commence in Melbourne in March. The nw company is engaged for Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and will leave London for Melbourne on January 27th. The idea has been mooted by the Pacific Mail Company to limit their business to the trade between New York and San Francisco. At a meeting of directors at New York, on the 19th ulfc., President Harfc openly declared that the company had been robbed during the last few;years, and had only recently secured an honest management. The company has entered into a new contract with the Union Pacific Bailway Company for one year, on a much more favorable basis than the former contract, but they decline to make the conditions public for the present. The company has received a large offer from an English firm for its Australian trading steamers. The service will probably be transferred. 'General Badcock has been appointed general superintendent of the company's business at San Francisco. Home advices state Eusaia has 250,000 men south of the Balkans, and is straining every nerve to complete new fortification* at Kuatenji, on the Danube, at |Buetchuk, Galatz, and Braila, is constructing new bridges on tbe Danube, and forwarding vast quantities of war material. Baker Pasha and other English officers' are fortifying the Turkish lines.