CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN STEWS. (UECTEI'.'S TELEGRAM, I'EU I'P.ESS ASSOCIATION) London, April 17. Latest Cape news up to Ist April states that relieving forces have started for Ekowe, consisting of (3000 men, with Gat ling guns and rocket columns. The troops are in good health. 011 the 30th March, Colonel Pearson signalled from Ekowe that 200 of his ••iitiiv garrison were disabled, and only r.UD effective.
It is staicd that over 35,000 Zulus await the arrival of the Ekowe relieving force. Two hundred Zulus attacked Colonel Wood's camp, near Linncbcrg. There was severe fighting, which lasted four hours, when the enemy were repulsed. The British loss was seven" officers and seventy men. e DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (SPECIAL. TO I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.) IVlKi.noi K.VK, April 17. The Argus scholarship for engineering lias been founded at the University. The proprietors gave LIOOO. Stdxey. April 17. The son and clerk to the L nder-Secre-tary of Education lias been accused in the* Assomblv of writing to teachers, ottering to sell stationery, and asking contributions .lor a distressed friend (unnamed), and promising his influence for an equivalent. The Wakatipu arrived yesterday. The trial of the Hadfield bushrangers commenced at Dcnilquin to-da\. iho :.i i.-.i'iie:\s pleaded not guilty.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 937, 18 April 1879, Page 2
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