THE SULTANATE OF ZANZIBAR.
1 * THE tfSURPER BOLTS.
NEW SULTAN FRIENDLY TO BRITISH. [per press association.] , Zanzibar, August 27.~The marines captured the Palace. Abdul Khfiled will probably be deported to India. Zanzibar August 28. — Care,, tba ~ British Consul, lias proclaimed Hamud an elderly cousin of the late Monaioh' Sultan of Zanzibar. ' The gunboats Thrush and Racoon were repeatedly hit by the rebels' fire but received little damage, only one sailor being wounded. ° The rebels fonght pluckily and lost heavily. Khalcd bolted early in the engagemont. Zanzibar, August 29.— Hamud expresses his friendship to tho British and declares tbe status unaltered, as annoxa tion would involve tho immediate abolition of slavery, which is not dosired ' The natives lost a hundred is tha recent trouble. , '
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10706, 31 August 1896, Page 3
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123THE SULTANATE OF ZANZIBAR. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10706, 31 August 1896, Page 3
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