ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1535, 18 January 1879, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[i'HOM OUE OWN COEEBSI’ONDENT.J Auckland, January 1(5. A despatch from Nashville, Tennessee, reports a terrible light between revenue officers and smugglers, in which six men were killed on each side. Hongkong advices report Asiatic cholera existing there. The American Government propose to" |uarantine all vessels from Hongkong The Sioux Indians in. Daeotah territory assembled to the number of 2D<lO warrior-, and are supposed to be preparing for war on a gigantic scale. Governor Gndalajarn, of Mexico, having decreed an extraordinary tax of 1 percent, on real property and capital, the citizens assembled to protest. The troops wore called out and many prominent citizens killed. The emancipation of slaves is proceeding in Cuba. Five thousand wore freed in thirty days.

During election quarrels at Louisville, some men crazed with whisky charged through the streets, brandishing knives and revolvers. Four persons were killed and seven wounded. The military suppressed the riot. A terrible H.c.imboat collision occurred on the J\l issßsipi between the steamers Morgan and Cottonvalley. Twenty lives were lost. At Terrihaut a blast being tired broke through a thin wall of coal, and exploded an accumulation of gap with a tremendous concussion. Sixteen were killed oi diet), of Buffo* cation.

Al;bo Dobaize proposes to penetrate Central Africa. . It is reported in club and military circles that Count Sclioavaloff intends to propose the Duke of Edinburgh as Prince of Bulgaria. A letter was received threatening the King of Denmark with ass .ssination. A box of Oraini bombs vvas seized at Hamburg. Captain George Graham Duff, on the retired list of the Royal Navy, died 2lst November, of wounds received while storming the Gate Pa in 1861.

William S. Lyster has succeeded in forming an "Operatic Company in England, consisting of Madame Rose iiersoe, Miss Alina Pelma, Charles Grnznor, Signor G. Verdi, Signor Ugo Anglera, with Mr Howell as stage director. The opera season will commence in Melbourne in March. The new company is engaged for Australia, New Zealand, and tho United States, and will leave London for Melbourne on January 27th.

Tho idea has been mooted by the Pacific Mail Company to limit their business to the trade between Now York and San Francisco. At a meeting of directors at New York, on the 16th nit., President Hart 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 Railway 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. Tho service will probably be transferred. General Badcock has been appointed general superintendent of the company’s business at San Francisco. Home advices state Russia has 250,000 men south of the Balkans, and is straining every nerve to complete new fortifications at Kustenji, ou the Danube, at ,Rußtehuk, Galatz, and Braila, is constructing new bridges on the Danube, and forwarding vast quantities of war material.

Baker Pasha and other English officers are fortifying the Turkish lines.