AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.
ALBANY. Friday. The P. and O. steamer arrived at Tanjore with the Suez mail, and brings Cape news to August 18. Amekazi, Cetewayo's Kraal was totally destroyed, and Cetewayo with but few followers fled into the bush southwards,' closely pursed by the British troops. Three of Cetewayo's sons' with several Zulu chiefs, surrendered with all Cetewayo's cattle.
MELBOURNE. This Day. A most extraordinary affair has come to light here, and is now being investigated before the law courts. A womon named Evans has for twenty years passed as a man, and has been married to three different woman. Her present wife recently born a child, when she instituted proceedings. The wife declares that she was not aware of her husband's sex, and makes other extraordinary statements. The affair is causing considerable excitement.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 883, 6 September 1879, Page 2
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135AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 883, 6 September 1879, Page 2
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