STANLEY'S MARCH. London, November 1.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 5

STANLEY'S MARCH. London, November 1.

Information has been received from Zanzibar that several African traders who have arrived there give tidings of Stanley's expedition. They met the rear guard, about the end of November, which was moving in the direct ion of Albert Nyanza. At this time the main division under Stanley himself was well ahead, although the leader had been prostrated for some three weeks by an attack of fever The advance of the expedition was largely impeded by dense forests and abounding marches, and fiequently the day's score gave only a mile and a quarter in the required direction. The party were short of provisions, and had been compelled to seize what they could fiom the tribes inhabiting the country through which they passed. When the traders left Stanley he expressed his intention to strike northward for a time, and then make for the eastward, expecting to icach Wadelai in January. It is stated that the fatalities among Stanley's party hare been two hundred.

LATER. Information has been received thab forty of Stanley's party were drowned in fording a river, and it is also mentioned that all his white comrades hai perished. Stanley had nob reached Wadelai up to March last.