CAPE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 280, 3 October 1879, Page 2

CAPE NEWS.

[PER Cr.IIBOMA,] A telegram from Durban, dated Sept. 3, says Cetewayo and four followers, wilh his three wives and daughter, all embarked at noon for Natal. This steamer and

Forester go to sea with sealed orders immediately, Rumor says Mauritius is their destination. News from Col. Villiers to 25th August states ho had made further advance without opposition. The native force at the junction of the White and Porenabe rivers still refuse to submit, Colonel Villiers proposed to visit them next, Colonel Bakn Russell was camped at Trequin neck on 28th August. Umbsibe has surrendered to him and asked to be fi allowed to join him against the other Makluse tribes, who are reported to mean ( fighting. ', At a great meeting at Ulundi on Septa Ist, Wolaeley announced to the great chiefs the deposition and banishment of Cetewayo from Zululand, and at the same time a number of chiefs were proclaimed independent in the several territories as- ■ signed them, A telegram from Ulandi states that when Major Marter with a rush surrounded the trail in which Cetewayo was taking refuge, he called on the King to come out from the hut in which he was hiding. The King refused to do so, but invited his pursuers to enter. This the Major would not permit, and Cetewayo had ultimately to come out. As he did so a soldier ran forward to seize him, but the King with dignity waived the man away, and asked to be killed.