NEWS FROM THE CAPE.
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The steamer Afghan brings, .Cape news to , /Sept. 26. -, ■ • / • Colonel Clark’s column, is on its' way to Pietermaritzburg and Durban, ,by way of • .Middle Drift and Grey town, the object'of its marching by this route being to produce a moral effect on the Zulus, living in that direction, who are restless. . JoW Dunn refuses to alldw missionaries to enter his country even Bishop Bchroedeif being excluded. His action is exciting muon -interest. ... _ Numerous stories are circulated with regard to the behaviour of Cetowayo when on his . >, way to the Coast. . There is a very general ' agreement amongst those who have seen him .that he is a most superior man, the Very last to be guilty of atrocities towards his subjectsIt is not a little remarkable to find what an absence there is of anyevidenoe to prorethe -charge* of a cruel disposition made against , ". detewayo’before the war began. Byery officer of intelligence who has been in ZnlulaUd tells : ','the ; Balnesto!y,andnotasirigleZuluha»been ' ; fbnndwhp:adesn6t,professregard'fOTthc jlatp'-kujg., hundreds; pl ’NitSP ' * r natives’ saw‘OCwvirayCi brotidht' *' ; ,at dnCbjitivC saWhari I 'at , Pi»t ;«♦ vr-f J-.-U bhH.r.’i- nif n oa.i/icr-D "A |
the Zulu seftlemant leave.tfarZalu»|in sionof their country, cattle, arfdgnns. 1 Theoffaira ~of the Traniraal arainavery uncertain state. It is not denied that Sir (Garnet Wolaeley’s reception was anythingbut* feoifffiu. I ';;'', I", I ,'' v ' ,%i7 -"' n . i ' f,: ' It has been determined to erect a monument inMarkefc ’square, Pietermaritzburg, to the officers : and inen of the forces of the' Colony who have' fallen in tbe war, afidto open a separata list to’ which Contributions will be invited from England' and ' South . Africa’for the erection' of a monument bn the 1 field 6f Isandula. .*■ ;
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LII, Issue 5827, 29 October 1879, Page 5
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