CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 September 1851, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The Kaffir war continues, and presents the most discouraging aspects.

The seat of Government is to be removed to Graham's Town. H.IVI. steamer Vulcan arrived on the 12th at Table Bay. aud proceeded to Algoa Bay on the same day, having 600 troops of the 74tli on board.

The steamer Ehadamanthus, which sailed from Plymouth with arms and munitions of war, and £10,000 specie, had not arrived.

The startling" news was brought to Graham's Town by Field Cornet Grey, that the Hottentots at the London Missionary institution of Theopolis had massacred tbe Fingoes on the 30th of May. The account given is that the Hottentots had surrounded the Fingoe huts, and iired a gun for the purpose of attracting the attention of their victims, and as they came out of their huts they were shot down.

Expresses from Burghersclrop announced that place in imminent danger. The Tainbookies were laying1 waste the Frontier on that side, and the lives of the colonists were in the hands of the barbarians.

Fort Armstrong had been recaptured by the Kaffirs.

The communications with Eland Port had been interrupted, and Lieut. Carey, the bearer of despatches, with a detachment of his carbineers, had great difficulty to avoid being cut off.

At Theopolis a bloody combat had occasioned us a general loss. Field Cornet Grey, killed ; Captain Stubbs, with Commandants Watts, M'Gran, Weeble, Dell, and others, wounded.— Melbourne Argus, Aug. 26.