CABLEGRAMS.
(KEUTEK'S TELEGRAM 3)
London, February 21. ■% Later Cape news states that the British column under Colonel Wood whioh successfully repulsed an attack by 5,000 Zulus, has sinco fallen back upon a position in Natal. Shere All is still at Nazir Sharif, in North Afghanistan. Melbourne, Monday. It is officially announced here that the P. & O. tender for tha Victorian Suez Mail service is £85,000. There were no other tendere. Kcra Geokge's Sound, Monday. ] Arrived-- P. and O. Co's steamer Assam, from Galle. She brings the following passengers for New Zealand : — Captain and Mrs Tonwell and family, Mrs and Miss Atkinson. NEWS PER ASSAM. General Roberts' victory on the 7th February was a complete one. 360 of the enemy were killed. The frontier tribes are troublesome, especially the Khyborns. It is difficult to properly punish them. A band of Lazens crossed the British territory, and plundered a village. They were puisued, and completely cut to pieces. It appears that Eussia has dissuaded Shere Ali against going to St. Petersburg, and all assistance has been re— iused him Before leaving Cabnl, Sheie Ali exacted an oath of allegiance from Yakob Khan. The Kohistanees have endeavored to plundei Cabul, but all is now quiet everywhere, punishment having had a salutary effect.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume i, Issue 52, 25 February 1879, Page 3
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