CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 935, 15 October 1868, Page 2

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the arrival of the barque Catherine from the Cape of Good Hope yesterday, we have files of Cape papers to August 14. The items of news they contain are few and unimportant. The Government were about to despatch a prospecting expedition to the goldfields. The latest news from the diggings was that very excellent and promising specimens had been sent down from the Bev. Mr M’Kenzie to the Governor, and that within a few weeks that rev. gentleman who is stationed as missionary with the Bamangwato, expected definite and decisive news from Captain Black, the leader,of the di"< r in cr party. Machen, the cbief of the territory in question, had offered to hand it over to the Government of the Cape on reasonable compensation. Another diamond had been found at Hope Town, near the site of the first one. It weighed 13 carats. Matters in the Free State were in the same condition as at last advices, the opposite parties waiting the result of the deputation to England. The mail steamer Cambrian arrived from England on J uly 16, bringing Captain Faulkner, late of the 17th Lancers, and several other officers who arranged, at their own cost and venture, a fresh expedition to the regions of the Zambezi and Nyassa. “ Captain Faulkner,” says the South African Advertiser, “is well and favourably known as one of the search party sent out last year by the Government to ascertain the fate of Dr. Livingstone. His object now, along with his associates, is to combine sport and exploration —to. steam along Nyassa to its northern extremity, explore its eastern shore, and hunt the country down from thence to the Zambezi, The steamer they have built for . this purpose is now on board the Cambrian, in no. fewer than seventy-five sections; and, from a drawing we have before us, will look as elegant as she is substantial in build and ingeniously convenient in all her arrangements. She is two-masted, schoonerrigged, with curtained awnings provided ■ amidships and in the quarter.— Argus, ' Sept 24.