ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 221, 19 June 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

News lias been received that a Russian corps, with cavalry and artillery, crossed the Danube near Polbacke, aiid entered the Do! r.ulschr, where an engagement is iu progress. The Russians have a number of ironclad boats, drawing only a few feet of water, at the mouth of the Dniester, near Akerman, which they hope to safely convey to the Kilia mouth of the Danube, and over the bar of the town of Kilia. Eight Turkish soldiers captured near Ibraila, were armed with American rides, filing thirty-six cartridges without reloading. Roumanian shells only reached the Turkish vessels ofi‘ Widdin. '

The ship builders, lock-out at Glasgow affects 2# jOOO men. ’ Fifty thousand deaths from cholera have] occurred "in India. During the Whit Monday amusements a baloon about to ascend blew against a gas jet .and exploded. Eightysix spectators were injured, six . seriously. - Thomas Carlyle writes to the Times that Disraeli evidently intends to involve England in a wav against Russia. Two thousand colliers struck in the Dartmoor district. Northcote says the Turks have 400,000 well-armed and disciplined troops in Europe. Six gunboats and ten boats for landing troops have been ordered. Torpedo gear for the monitors has been ordered During a debate in the House of Commons on the Eastern Question, Prince Napoleon was in the gallery under sebrbcyi and it is said the Government had no knowledge of his presence. Russia has assembled large forces at Lasbkajda for offensive operations. The Times says the war party is still in a minority. The army clothing factories are being worked without intermission, and arrangements have been made for the embarkation of 25,000 men in six dayg if necessary, and of 25,000 more in a fortnight after. English statesmen think Russia will not Venture 1 on; the occupation of Constantinople, {rating the consequences of a general European war.