CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 27, 2 August 1864, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

■ : Via Sydotst, 25th July. ._. Tlie Ariel captured a large slaver of 800 tons in the Mozambique Channel. The Gape Argiis of-May 28 says most alarming intelligence has been received by telegraph. Kreli, with 7,000 Kaffirs, crossed the Bashee, and met a party of mounted police, whom they com- •• pelled to retire. They attacked and cut up a detachment, of the 10th Regiment. This, however, is only given on the authority of rumors. Sir Walter Currie, Colonel Bissett, and troops at Fort Beaufort move.to front immediately. Sir Percy Douglas, with the 11th Regiment, and a body of Royal Artillery, were to leave Cape Town next day for frontier. , . > Government, fearing another Kaffir war, intend to-take immediate steps to stop it. '"The supposed cause of the outbreak is instructions from the Home Government to annex the Frankeian territory to British Caffraria. . , ■;• . , Syduey, 25th July. The Prospector, Craigievar, and Squaw, for Melbourne, were -vrihclbound. at Twofold Bay. The latter lost her rudder and threw a portion of the cargo overboard during a gale on the i6th. '_j_ :■. Adeaide, 25th July. -'Prices of wheat and flour are still. further reduced, but no transactions. The total exports of flour from.; South Australia from January 1 to to Julyl6'were 27, 695 tons; total wheat 159,605 tons; total wheat 159,999 quarters, equal to 56,140 tons, of flour.; For bran there; is little inquiry, Is. 6d. per, busheL; .Stocks, oats and barley small; potatoes scarce. /No change to report in .bank.rates, one per. cent; :- r > , * .': ; The Balclutha arrived at ten -a.nl., ' Cleared. —Sarah, Pile, rfor,-New. Zealand. ' . S„: General mercantilei, business unusually dull. ;