Affairs in Zanzibar.

Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 208, 1 September 1896, Page 2

Affairs in Zanzibar.

ABDUL KHALED USURPS THE THRONE.

Zanzibar, August 28

Abdul Khalod controls 2500 troops, and the Palace guns were trained oh the harbor. EJ.M.'s vessels Thrush, Spxrrow, aud -Philomel were moored opposite, and on the arrival of the St. George, the flagship, 250 seamen wore landed, and Rear-Admiral H. Rawson, of the latter vessel, sent an ultimatum that unless Khaled completely submitted by 1 o'clock, the Palace would be bombarded. British residents in Zanzibar have been ordered on board the vessels.

Hamid, the late Sultan, died suddenly, and it is supposed that he was poisoned. Khaled had the body buried within a couple of hours of death, and he told Mr Basil S. Cave, British Consul, that he preferred to die before he would quit the Palace. Local opinion favors the abolition of the Sultanate and the hoisting of the British flag. London, August 29.

Abdul Khaled declining to submit to the British Admiral, the floet opened fire on the Palace, and the bombardment continued for upwards of an hour, and then began to cease. The extent of the damage or loss of life is not known.

Zanzibar, August 29

Khaled's party armed a cargo steamer and fired on the British men-of-war, but was speedily sunk. The Palace aud old Customhouse are now a heap of blazing ruins, and the British are trying to extinguish the flames. „ Kualed, with his chief adherents, took refuge in the German Consulate. Sailors are engaged in capturiug the rebsls. Firing is proceeding in the outskirts of the town, where Captain Raikes and 400 of the Zanzibar army remained h :sa; ;d.