THE RISING IN RHODESIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7665, 27 June 1896, Page 2

THE RISING IN RHODESIA.

. THE REBELS MUTILATING THEIR VICTIMS. THE WITCH DOCTOR KILLED. Capetown, June 25. t The Matabele are mutilating the women ■ they capture. Instances are reported in ■ which the unfortunate victims have been i driven to suicide rather than risk the horrors I of capture. I Captain Burnham tracked the native , prophet Olemo to his sacred cave in the Matoppo hills, and found him officating L before a large crowd of natives, who fled in terror directly the seer waa shot. Lieut. H. Bremner, of the 20th Hussars, was killed in , the skirmish. t June 26.— Earl Grey, Administrator of ! the Chartered Compauy, has communicated t with the Cape Government thanking it for offers of assistance, but states that the white troops operating in Matabeleland, together with reinforcements arriving, are sufficient ' for the defence of Bulawayo. A quicker route for transport is, he considers necessary. 1 Major-General Carriugton was desirous of 1 increasing the force but feared the difficulty | of transport. The Premier offers to supply : a transport corps. ] Lisbon, .1 une 26. The Government has given its sanction to British reinforcements being landed at Biera, i a Portuguese seaport on the south-east coast '■ of Africa.