CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 67, 18 April 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Sydney, Tuesday. Arrived— Zealandia . The steamer lioVen has arrived at Port Darwin with eighty Chinese"," including twentytwo for New. ; Zea; land. Melbourne, Tuesday. ... The Adelaide Cup was won by Banter ; Jarto, 2 ; Timothy, 3. The sailing of the John Elder is postponed, owing to a mishap to the machinery. St. Petersburg, April 15. A man named Beotrum Won* sokmloff, an employe in the Finance' ! ' Department, to day fired four enoits ' l at the Emperor Alexander, 1 'who'' 1 1 however, was untouched. jGrea^. enthusiasm is shown by the' 1 people of St. Petersburgh at hia escape. ' ' Melbourne, W ednesday, i "i - "i The Siam arrived, at Albany this morning.. By hey fuller , accounts, ->i of the Isandu^a disaster state, , (that ithe Zulus .were marching in regular 'order ,to 'invade Nat^l, wjben_ ih.e,y M ft encountered Colonel o%n's columns which kept the Zulus atbay for several hours, until the ammunition failed. The: Zulus , then advanced? ;! uttering demoniocal yeiisj and a. feat * - ■ fui struggle ensued ' The ' "Zulus ' hurled the corpses of their comrades on the Brnish bayonets, thus iPyer^j coming the resis^ce ;: opposedxiit^wfi them. The British were literally hewn down, there not being a single living white left in* the 1 ckmp; The losses were — of the .imperial armvrp 786 : mehi 51 'officers' i of th^Colfc 1 .. nial forces.- lip ;I ?l' o^c^m '^! The health of the ' rem^der '" <f Colonel Had j sutterel. Jl from privation aud expp^ur^y v/kj