REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 743, 15 February 1879, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PUESS ASSOCIATION.] t - THE KAFFIR WAR, Cape ToWN, February 10. Natal is iu great danger. The Gov enior and the High Cmnmisiouer have demanded itistanc iv-iuforcerrteilta. The Znies lost 5000 men. London, February 11. Reinforcements for the Cape Consist , of six hundred infantry, two British Cavalry regiments and two bitttel'ieS of „ artillery ; leave immediately. Rein- ! forcenients sufficient to terminate the. 3 | struggle will start within a Week, ( [special,] . London, February 10, 1 Twenty thousand Zulus attacted a i, portion of the 24th Regiment and six ; luii.d.i d native levies afcßouake’e Draft.

They captured one hundred waggons, a thousand rifles a quantity of affimuuitioh, And thb i-lgmeatal dolors. The j£ulus lost five thousand, and the British five hundred whites killed and all the officers, The'Cape Government haVe applied * for extra infantry and one cavalry * regimentv Natal is in panid -1 London, February 11. | The Zulus have defeated and massacred over seven hundred British and ! native infantry and thirty officers killed. Bombay and Mauritius have been ! ordered to reinforce Natal. Twelve thousand troops have been ordered to sail instantly from London 1 NaTaL, (latest.) j Natal is imperilled. The agitation in Englaiid is increasing. {XA*rfisf.] 1 London, February 11. The 24th Regiment were decoyed into an ambush of 20,000 Zulus. A butchery ensued, our idea being overwhelmed by numbers; Our loss was 30 officers and sfo ntbm the Zulus lost 5000. A large fast steamer has been chartered to take out reinforcements, and a subsidy offered for laying a UablU to tile Cape. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [sraciAt.] Sydney, February 14. The steamer Billina, bound for -Sydney, was totally wrecked at Port Macqnarrie, No lives were lost. A bushranger stuck up a hawker in the Wagga Wagga district. He was pursued ami captuied. Daly, master of the Heather Bell, has been sentenced at Fiji to six months' imprisonment and a fine of £l5O, for illegally detaining islanders.