THE MATABELE REVOLT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 86, 13 April 1896, Page 2

THE MATABELE REVOLT.

BRAND'S COLUMN ATTACKED.

TWENTY-TWO CASUALTIES

Capetown, April 12. News has been received thab Brand's column was attacked and driven into a corner by the Matabele on tha Tuli Road. There were 22 casualties. Dr. Macfaclane, with 230 men and guna, have gone to relieve them. The nativos are said to possess ample grain. Earl Grey haa lefb here for Buluwayo, The whole of the Matabele, including the bribes which took no part in the late war, have risen in revolt, and ib is considered ab Buluwayo thab a force fully 1,500 strong is required to repress them. A force haa lefb Forb Salisbury, including 200 natives and 200 Soudanese, to relieve Gwelo, which ia threatened. Mr Cecil Rhodes has recovered, and accompanies the broops.

London, April 11.

Mr Chamberlain states thab the authorities report that the patrol system has failed. The whites are massing aba few points, and are able to hold out for the present. Ultimately they will assume an offensive attitude, and it is expected thab ab least 500 men will be raised ab Mafeking, who will reach Matabeleland in three or four wooks. Sir H. Robinson hitherto considered the local forces snfficienb to cope with the natives, bub the Govermenb is willing to reinforce these from Nabal and the Cape.