ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 165, 8 November 1876, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

PROBABLE WAR IN EUROPE. PANIC AT ST. PETERSBURG!!. WAR AT THE CAPE. ALLEGED EUROPEAN SECRET COMPACT. CHINESE CHRISTIAN MASSACRE. INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES. Cape advices state that the position in Transvaal Republic is alarming. Owing to the defeats of the Dutch troops the natives became unmanageable. The Caffrcs have driven bask the Boors. Latest telegrams confirm the report that there is an absolute panic in the outlying districts. The Caffrcs. triumphed all along the line, and while the friendly Amaswazic tribe of Caffres behaved with reckless bravery, the Dutch citizen troops displayed the white feather. President Bii'-ghers was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Boors, that he implored them to shoot him then and there, that he might not survive the ignominy of defeat. According to last intelligence, the Dutch people fear a Caffre invasion, and there is a panic throughout Transvaal. Gulf King is leading forty thousand 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 Cape, but it is manifest that the Transvaal Boors , will require military assistance from us, and for this reason reinforcements have left for Cape Town. Kaffirtown was taken, 170 were killed and 500 huts burned. EUROPEAN NEWS. In the battle of the 28th September, one Servian battalion went into battle: 900 strong, and next day only 40 answered the roll call. ' ’

The canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea has been opened. A war panic has set in at St. Petersburg!!. Stocks fell, and discount rose 14 per cent. A secret alliance is reported between the Emperors of Russia, Austria, and Germany. Count Von Arnim has been sentenced tp one year’s penal servitude. A Spanish Cuba war loan of fifteen millions has been issued. The Chinese persecution of Christiana still continues. Bight were tied on a cross and then cut to pieces. Four more were murdered in the market place afterwards. General Crook attacked a camp of thirty lodges of Sioux, and killed every Indian—in all, about three hundred. At tho International Rifle Match at Washington, the Irish team scored 486 out of a possible 600 • .the Scotch team, 296 out of a possible 375 ; the Australian team, 117 out of a possible 150; the American team, 383 out of a possible 585. *