LATE CAPE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2368, 4 November 1881, Page 3

LATE CAPE NEWS.

[By: Telegbaph.]

[Per s.s. Te Anau, at the Bluff.]

CAPE TOWN, October 8

There have been very serious riots at Port Elizabeth among the Natives. The Fingolls and Zulus, on the night of the 4th, attacked the Kaffirs, and drove them right out of their location, ransacking the huts, and killing every living thing, even the dogs. Eighty citizens were Bworn in as special constables, with orders to quell tho disturbance at all costs. Owing to these measures, tho town has now become qaiet. On the 6th of October Sir Evelyn Wood opened the second session of_ tho ninth Council at Natal, and referring to the Transvaal said ho trusted that the British. Dutch, and also the colored inhabitants would prosper, that all heart burnings caused by recent events might die out. Tho progress of tho colony of Natal during tho year 1880 was remarkable, although the events early in the year somewhat checked tho advance. Yet it is hoped there will bo no serious retrogression. In tho course of his speech his Excellency passed high encomiums on the services of the late Governor Sir George Colley. Transvaal affairs remain very unsettled, tho convention not haviDg yet been ratified by the Volskraadt, who is communicating with tho British Government, and now going on with the ordinary work. In the country great anxioty provails as to the issue. Many families have moved, and many are still moving from the Transvaal, bad crops havingreduced them from comparative aflluenco to almost poverty. The marching of troops has been countermanded, pending the ratification of tho Convention, which Btill is confidently hoped for. Walker, the well-known emigration agent, is about proceeding to England and Scotland, emp3wered by the Government to make terms assisting agricultural i r >,i! ilies to coiun out here. The weather romaiuj splendid, and the harvest l prospects the uolguy i*ta uow brilliant.