LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[Reuter's Special to Stab.]
London, December 27.
In consequence of the necessity for reinforcements of Cavalry in the Transvaal, the 6th Dragoons have been ordered to Natal.
Obituary — John Joseph Mechi, ex Alderman 'of London, aged 78. The deceased was better known as the inventor of the razor strop bearing bis name.
Berne, December 27.
The President of thSwisse Confederation, who had but quite recently been elected to the position, committed suicide to -day in a street in this city.
Capetown, December 26.
Further telegrams to hand regarding the disaster in the Transvaal state that when the Boers attacked the detachment of the 94th Regiment the men were engaged in rescuing a number of swamped waggons, a,na heing consequently without arms, were completely crushed by the large numbers of Boers who swept down on them. News has also been received that the Boers at Potochefstroom murdered five Englishmen who were residinsr in the town, and as soon as the information of the outrage had reached headquarters, a battery of Artillery was despatched, and shelled the place. The enemy were completely driven out, and over 100 killed by the guns.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 75, 29 December 1880, Page 2
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