South African Affairs.
(Per Press Associaitok'i. Capetown, June 29. News has been received that the telegraph line between Fort Salisbury and Umtali has been cut by the rebels. It it estimated the claims against the British South Africa Chartered Company by farmers and other.-*, owing to the Matabele rising will amount to £200,000. June 80. Mr Chamberlain states that the military authorities are advised not to employ Indian soldiers against the Mashonas, as tho Natives would regard them . as a confession of weakness of the Whites. The Government were, however, sendiog a batallion of the King's Rifles to the Cape. It is reported that three Australians have been killed by tho Matabele at a place Bomo twenty miloa north of Fort Salisbury. The rising of the Mashonas is spreading to various posts held by the Portuguese in the Zambesi, and the brother of Jameson has been killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1896, Page 2
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147South African Affairs. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1896, Page 2
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