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THEIR LAST STAND.

Capetown, May 2d. Mounted infantry to the number of 2du, and lot) natives, taking two .Maxim guns, I left Bulawayo to clear the country to the j north-west, and as heavy tiring is heard | from the town, it. is supposed ail engagement is now taking place, i Three hundred rebels attacked a cart y of fifty at Hope Mountain, and after two hours’ lighting were repulsed. The telegraph line has b :e.a cut b d wean Bui 11W.I V' l and ' i Web). TLB MATABELE AND TIIE BOERS. London, April 17. Lord Salisbury, who will return to England next week, must at once grapple with several serious questions. There is no longer much doubt that the Government will send a largo force to the Soudan in August, unless, in the meantime, it maybecome necessary to use the full military resources of the Empire in another war with the Boers. A large section of the Conservative press insists that the Transvaal is making rapid preparations to fight for complete independence. The Times is so strongly convinced of this that it is really

t hysterical on tho subject. In tho face of this possible war the military authorities are proclaiming, with a great show of dismay, that it is simply impossible, in the present condition of the British army, to send the 50,000 troops to Africa which would he necessary in order to crush the Boers. Some journals declare without reserve that it will be a long time before the British Government can put an army in the field which will he capable of whipping the Transvaal republic. This is a state of things which, if even approximately true, will bo regarded with satisfaction throughout the world.

Nor is much sympathy felt with Eng land in other European countries over her present difficulties in Matabeleland. Private advices from Buluwayo indicate that one of the most potent causes of the native revolt was the treatment of tho Mutabele girls by British and other settlers. If tho natives should succeed in driving the whites out of the country there would not bo much regret outside of England.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 19

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THEIR LAST STAND. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 19

THEIR LAST STAND. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 19