CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 207, 24 July 1847, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received a few Cape Papers yesterday the latest date being April 16th. Our regular files are, we presume, en board H. M. S. Rattlesnake. The frontier continued in a very unsettled state. Robberies and depredations of all khids were constantly being committed by the Kafirs, who had also several skirmishes with detachments and outposts. It appeared to be the opinion of those best acquainted with the the native character, that a violent attack would be made on the colony early in May. Sir H. Pottinger was residing at Graham's Towu. The Pekin steam ship arrived at the Cape, after a fine run of forty-three days, having touched at Gibraltar and St. Helena. The Pottinger, another steamer, was fifty days. The Oriental Company have now provided the three first class boats they were bound to put on the line between Ceylon and China, so that the vessels hitherto employed in that service are now at liberty for any other line that may be opened. Three steamers belonging to the Spanish Government, were at the Cape on their way to Manila, so that the steam fleet in the Indian Ocean will be greatly augmented during the present year. — S.M.H., June 30.