ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 240, 7 November 1876, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Cape advices state that the situation in the Transvaal Republic ia alarming, as; owing to the defeat of the Dutch troops, the natives have become unmanageable. The Kaffirs have driven back the Boors, The latest telegrams confirm the report that there is an absolute panic in the outlying districts. The Kaffirs triumphed all along the line, and while the friendly Amaswazee tribe of Kaffirs behaved with reckless bravery the Dutch citizens and troops dis--played the white feather. The President was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Boors that he implored them to shoot him then and there, so tbat he might not survive the ignominy of defeat. According to the latest intelligence, the Dutch people fear a Coffre invasion, and there is a panic through-. out Transvaal. Gulu, the King, is leading 40,000 men to attack Transvaal, and has threatened a wholesale massacre of the Boors. For the present there is no danger of a native outbreak at the Capt, but it is manifest that the Transvaal Boors will require military assistance from us, ahd for this reason reinforcements have left for Capetown. A Kaffir town has been taken, and 170 were killed aud 5000 huts burned. ? v In the battle of the 28th September one Servian battalion went into battle nine hundred strong, and next day only Iforty answered to the roU call. . . -•- The canal from Amsterdam to tha North Sea is opened. There is a war panic at St. Petersburg!.; stocks fell, and. discount rose to Ii per cent.A secret alliance is reported betwsen the Emperors of Russia, Austria, and Germany. Count Yon Armin has beeu sentenced to one year's penal servitude. A Spanish Cuban war loan of fifteen millions has been issued. The Chinese persecution of Christians still continues. Eight were tied on a cross and then cut to pieces, and four more were j murdered in the market place afterwards. j General Custer attacked a camp jof thirty lodges of Sioux, and killed everj Indian to the number of about three hundred. . J In the International Rifle Match at Washington the Irish team scored 48S. out of a possible 600; the Scotch team 296 out of a possible 375; the Australian team. 117 out of a possible 150; and the American team 383 out of a possible 585.