CABLEGRAMS.
(jtEUTEK r S TELEGRAMS.) London, April 9. Cape news to 25 th March has been received. The ltftest -intelligence is that a convoy of suppliea .proceeding to Luneberg, escortedTby a detaoh* meat of 104- officer? andmqn belpqg* ing to the 80th Regiment, was attacked by 4000 Zulus on ljUfcj IVJaroh. The convoy had .been previously warned of the: probable attack, but although everything had beenj prei pared the Zulus overwhelmed them. The captain commanding the escort and 40 men r were killed, 21 misping, and 40 reached Luneberg. \ i^he British guns and ammunition were afterwards recovered and the dea/^ buried. , ; , ."'.,•>' The relieving force for' Ekowe starts on the 26th March. The ma* jority of the British reinforcements have arrived at the Cape. > • The Standard in a leading article announces that if the Khedive of Egypt, after the frbndly warning that he has received from England and Franoe, fails to retrieve his con* duct, the Sultan will be invited to depose him. Tallow, 6d. lower. The Western Australian loan is a great sucoess. A reduction of the Bank of Eng. land rate of discount is prbbable. April 11. The Bank rate of discount has been reduced to 2 per cent. Sydney, Saturday. A sculling race took place today between Laycock and Bush. After a splendid race, Laycock won by half a length*
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 66, 15 April 1879, Page 2
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