CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 76, 14 November 1846, Page 2

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

THE KAFIR WAR: Among tha ( news fro in the Cape given in the Van DienienV Land journals we find the fol§ lowing:— : - , ' jr , , "The' latest intelligence from head quarters of three-divisions under Sir P.Maitland,' Colonel Hare/'aud.Sir A.. Stockenstrpnr, lead to the expectation that some actions of a decisive character were nos many, days distant, perhaps not many houts. Forces, ainouuling ,tp nine or ten thousand men, are evidently moving simultaneously on the rugged' fastnesses of the A.matola hills, wlieije the Kafirs supposed to have concentrated their strength and their wealth, tliatis, their herds and flocks. They are said to be fortifying the passes, digging pits, armed at the bottom with stakes, and covered with deceptive turf, as tney w s eve accustomed heretofore to entrap elephants and lions. Tfiat they will resist is,certain j and it cannot be but the contest will prove a bloody one."

• r i ,—, — , ] New and terrible Disease.— A physician of Vienna has discovered a new and terrible disease, to which workmen in Incifer manufactories alone are exposed. It commences with . pains in the teeth' and cheek-bones':' and break • ing out openly on the removal of a tooth, it in- 7 flames the speriosteum of the jaw-bones, gan- 1 g'ren'ek, and ultimately produces mortification— i thiis p'airifullv putting an end to thesufferer's life v -^ Tlie cause "pftih'e.diseasfe is supposed to be the-? arsenic in the phosphorous. An official enq^ry 's ordered. , , , ( ' %