ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1888, 12 March 1880, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS

[By Tblbgbaph.] AUCKLAND, March 11. The Government cannon foundry received such large orders that although many additional men have been engaged extra time is required. Francisco Gonzales, the would-be assassin of the King, has been pronounced insane, but at tho same time sentenced to death. The Kabyles and the Moors generally have asked to be placed under Spanish protection by being allowed to swear allegiance. If Spain refuses they will apply to France or England. In Switzerland extremely cold weather is reported. Lake Zurich is frozen over, and the whole country is said to be a mere mountain of snow. All business is interrupted. Famine prevails largely in Adriaraople. Fifteen persona were found dead from hunger in one day. Throughout Turkey the cold is excessive, and many travellers have perished. There is great mortality amongst the cattle near Constantinople. A barrack building fell, killing 200 soldiers and wounding 300 Afghanistan. Terrible accounts reach Candahar from without the British lines. Nearly 2000 families have been exterminated by the Ghilzais. Seven villages of the latter were afterwards captured by Kashgars and every soul slain.

At Fez, Morocco, in Africa, the Moors attacked and wounded several Jews. They covered a man seventy years old with petroleum and burned him alive amidst shouts of joy. A telegram from San Francisco says that the Mexicans offer to protect the Mormons in their worship, but refuse to tolerate polygamy. The Apaohes won a victory over the Northern cavalry, and captured their rations and bedding. There is a great concentration of _ troops and supplies preparatory to a war with the Utes.

A large fire in Chicago destroyed considerable property. A treaty has been signed in Paris for the appointment of a commission of enquiry into the claims of French subjects in the American war.

The cost of Baron de Lesseps' survey o ;he canal is estimated at 84 300,000 dols.

The Chilians are extending their conquests and the Bolivians are abandoning their positions.

The Sacramento Senate has passed a Bill prohibiting corporations from employing Chinese.

Many of Edison's lamps cracked owing to inferior glasa. He is experimenting to remedy the defect.

The tax on passengers by street cars caused a riot in Kio Janeiro, and many were killed. The Frenoh budget committee has proposed a vote of credit of 8,000,000 francs for the construction of a subterranean telegraph line.

The object of the Bill presented in the Bundesrath prohibiting foreign vessels from engaging in the coasting trade of Germany, except where the right is acquired by treaty, is to enable the Government to make reprisals against Bussia and the United States.

The "North German Gazette," in an article on British politics, expressed the opinion that in the next general election in Great Britain the Liberals will pay dearly for leaguing with the Irish. Five professional roughs, ringleaders and organisers of the bread riots in Cork, have been sentenced to six weeks in gaol. Director Gould, of the National Observatory at Cardona, Argentine Bepublic, telegraphs that a great comet is passing in a northern direction.

One of the principals in tho great turf frauds in connection with Benson, Kerr, and three detectives, who were convioted in 1878, has been arrested. The Lord Mayor of Dublin publishes a letter saying that the Duke of Murlborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in refusing to attend tho Mansion House dinner, descended from his position as representative of tho Queen to that of party. A congress man from Georgia has introduced a Bill prohibiting the bands of the army from playing on Sunday. Ten Chinamen have been burnt to death in San Francisco while stupified with opium. Bret Harte is reported to be on the point of resigning his German, consulate on account of ill health. A railway train, from Andalusia for Madrid, carrying the Government Treasury chest under charge of five gensdarmes, was stopped by sixteen brigands between Alcazar and Argimasiala. Marshal Serrano happening to be a passenger on the train took command of the gensdarmes ; one of the latter was wounded.

Tho French army estimates for 1870 wero barely 500,000,000 francs, while they now

cxceod 900,000,000 francs. The French army is better armed and numerically stronger than German.

The strength of the German army on a peace footing, as shown by the military budget of 1880 81 is 17,227 officers and 451,659 men. This does not inolude the projected increase, which the " Cologno Gazette" says is chiefly destined to reinforce the AlsaceLorraine garrisons. The people and press of Constantinople are virulent against England on account of the German missionary incident in the House of Commons. Mr Wheelhouse, a Conservative, moved for a Select Committee to consider the commercial relations between England and foreign nations, especially with reference to the importation of manufactured goods from abroad and tho effect of free trade. He said that America had beaten England in cotton cloths, and that manufacturiea and mills which were onoo working here were now only to bo found in America. After a short debate the motion was rejected. Canca Valley, Panama, wns devastated by recenc floods. The farmers had to go armed t 6 protect themselves against tho immense snakes whioh had been driven down the valley by the torrents. In reference to the proposition of the " New York Herald " to make him one of the commissioners to distribute the " Herald " fund in Ireland, Mr Parnell said that, he had concluded to accept, provided Mr Bennett would allow him to appoint proxies to servo in his stead till he returned to Ireland.

A journal in Washington soys that the House and Naval Committees to-day agreed to submit a joint resolution authorising the sending of a naval vessel to carry provisions and clothing to Ireland. An Ultramontane organ calls on the Reichstag to demand from Prince Bismarck explanations regarding the relation of Germany with Austria and other Governments. *

One of the Now York morning journals declares that the Princess Louise returned to Canada much against her will. She has never liked the country nor people, and wont to England to stay, preferring London life and society, but was literally driven baok by Queen Victoria;

The wife of Adam Murray, living near New Glasgow, gave birth to five children, three girls and two boys, all well developed. At a wrestling match in New York, Biddey, the English giant, defeated Andre Ohristol, a Frenchman, in two straight falls. Henry Irving's clear profits from the " Merchant of Venice," at the Lyceum, exceed £I2OO woekly. Commander Oheyne, R.N., explained on January 24th, at the Boyal Artillery Institution, Woolwioh, his soheme for the exploration of the North Pole by means of steam sledgeß and balloons. During 1879 sixteen thousand souls emigrated from India to the colonies. Colonel Beaumont, M.P. for South Durham, has invented and patented a compressed air locomotive capable of running ten miles without replenishing. Madame Marie Duret, the talented actress, well known in New Zealand, is lying ill of paralysis in San FrancißCO in distressed circumstances.