LATEST EUROPEAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5609, 15 February 1879, Page 5

LATEST EUROPEAN.

[SPECIAL.] LONDON. Feb. 11. The 24th Regiment were decoyed into an ambush of 20,000 Zulus, and, though overwhelmed by numbers, fought bravely. Thirty, officers and 570 men fell, and the Zulus are believed to have lost 5000. It was a regular massacre. It has been decided to despatch five large swift steamers with reinforcements.

The British Government offer to subsidise a cable to the Gape. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] BERLIN, Feb. 12. The German Parliament has opened. The Emperor in his speech declared it necessary to revert to the protectionist principles in force anterior to 1865, in order to secure a home market for home productions. BOMBAY, Feb. 13. The Indian Government have offered ~a contingent!)! troops ror tne cape.' ~ LONDON, Feb. 10. Consols —96£. Wheat is 6d lower. LONDON, Feb. 11. At a banquet last night, the First Lord of the Admiralty in his speech said that he deplored the disaster which had befallen the British troops in the Zulu country, and announced that reinforcements sufficient to crush the enemy, and finally terminate the struggle, would start within a week. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Premier made a statement similar to that made in the House of Commons, calling upon Englishmen to wipe out the disaster in Zulu land. The Afghan expedition has achieved its object for the protection of the frontier and preserving the independence of Afghan. The weather is improving, and hopes are entertained that it will mitigate the distress.