LATER CAPE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2199, 14 March 1881, Page 3

LATER CAPE NEWS.

[By Telhqbaph.J At a public meeting, Maseru Orange J) ree State, it was resolved to assist the Transvaal with men and money, and to impede the progress of munitions of war towards that place and Basutoland, supplies of powder and weapons to the residents being stopped hy the Cape Government. The Boers make officer shooting a speciality. The 53th is now commanded by a sub-Lieutenant, all the superiors having been killed. General Colley, addressing the troops alter the disaster at Laingsnek, said—“ I wl9 “ everybody to understand that the entire blame of to-day’s repulse rests on me, and not on any of you.” Ho went on to say that we had suffered no loss of prestige, and that ho was determined to take the field. The Boer General’s report on the battle, says that there were only from seventy to eighty Boers present when the blue jackets charged, but just then Commandant-General Joubert appeared on the scene with reinforcements. Joubert gives his loss at twenty-four disabled. Telegrams from Fort Elizabeth, Maritzburg, of the 16th February, reports an alleged counter revolution in the Transvaal. It is also reported that the Boer loss was greater than that of the English at Laingsnek.