CAPETOWN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 1341, 7 January 1879, Page 2

CAPETOWN NEWS.

a [Br Tblegbaph.] u Wellington, Jan 6. Tho Own Correspondent of the Press e Agency writes, undsr date Capetown, Novi n 2 let, as follows: — g Our differences with Oetewayo, the Zala King, are as far off settlement as ever. The a Governor is atill in Mantzburg, Natal, and all e our available forces are being masßed at t various points of the border, but Cetewayo (whether from fear, or want of preparation, I. appears uncertain) refrains from any overt Jj act of war, although there can be little donbt j that he is the instigator of Tiojocene's trouble. Th« natires of the Northern borders having I taken to fighting among themselves, made oar last of dispersing them is easy, and matters " have so quieted down that the administration { of Gregual and West has issued an amnesty - from the operation of which only the chiefs and all councillors and leading men, who have ! taken n prominent part in formentt' g,or main- , tuining tbe rebellion ; all rebels who were in i in receipt of pay from Government as head 3 men, and all who are suspected of having had ) any active share in any murder are excluded.