CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 137, 21 November 1846, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The brigantine Joseph Albino, which arrived on Sunday last, brought South African papers to July 18th inclusive. The incursions of the Kaffirs have been checked ; but retributive operations against them had been much retarded by the want of means of conveyance for the supplies required by the regular troops, Burgher forces, and native auxiliaries assembled upon the frontier. The Burgher levies seem tc have been made with an inflexible conscription which rendered service in person or by substitute imperative upon the conscripts and we have been assured that colonists capable of bearing arms found it somewhat difficult to leave the colony unless

they had passed the scrutiny, or the ballot or what not. In the midst of all these wars and rumours of war, the progress of local improvement in the Colonial Metropolis was uninterrupted. A new theatre had been opened : a Gas Company was on the point of commencing tbe diffusion of light and heat, offering to supply subscribers with heat for warmth or cooking by day, and with the means of brilliant illurainatiou by night ; and last, not least, a Harbour of Refuge is to be formed in Table Bay by the construction of a breakwater. — Adelaide Observer.