NEWS FROM THE CAPE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1768, 20 October 1879, Page 3

NEWS FROM THE CAPE.

WELLINGTON, October 10. The Press Agency correspondent writes under date, Capetown, September 2nd : Yery few details of the capture of Oetewayo are yet published. According to official accounts, Lord Gifford had traced him to a kraal in Nyome Forest, a wooded range of mountains lying between the Black TTmbolosi and the Nikugi, a country described in the official maps as precipitous, with thicklywooded kloofs, and in the fastnesses of which the fugitive King hoped to evade his pursuers. Lord Gifford, who had more than once been close on his heels, received positive information from a captured Zulu that the King was unable to walk or ride further, and was lying prostrate with a few male and female followers, in a’kraal on a spur of the mountains, and having reached the place described, he mounted guard, intending to effect the capture at nightfall. Meanwhile, Major Dempsey, who is with his dragoons, approached from a different direction, and surrounded it, whereupon the king and twenty-two followers surrendered, without firing a shot or hurling an assegai. Three dragoons arrived at Dlundi on Friday with the nows, and a cart was sent to bring the king into camp, where he arrived on Sunday, within a day of his coronation at the same place. During the march some of his followers attempted to escape. Six were successful, but five lost their lives in the attempt. The King, with a suitable escort, will bo sent to Maritzburg, via Korke’s Drift and Groytown, and it is said that her Majesty’s ship Forester has received orders to remain in constant readiness, it is presumed, to convey the King to Capetown. The capture of Oetewayo has removed the only obstacle to peace, and the nomination of the European residents and persons to whom the future government of Zululand will bo entrusted will be immediately made. The Press generally regard the capture of the King as u most fortunate circumatunoe, not only because it ends the Zulu war, but because of the immense influence it will have on the native mind. All the recent native disturbances have been traced to the influence and counsel of Oetewayo, and

ammunition. It is more than possible that having the knowledge of Cetewayo’s fate before him, Seoocoeni will at onoe submit and restore peace on tho Northern Transvaal border. Colonel Harrison, the newly appointed commandant of the Transvaal, has gone to the scene of the campaign. Some of tho 80th Dragoons and Scots Fusiliers are to go on to Pretoria, in case their services may be required. It is officially announced that tho Amatonga King has informed the British Vice-Consul at Lorenzo Marquis that several thousand head of cattle had been sent to him by the Zulu King, but he had returned them with an intimation that he would oppose any attempt to cross his border, as he was friendly to the British.