FROM AFRICA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 4

FROM AFRICA.

It was reported at Massowah, October Isb, that the Mahdi is dead at Khartoum. Experienced African traveller? are of opinion that S'anlev has gone into the •interior of the " Dark Con&uiout,/' where he could not be heard fiom for a year or two. The Bechuana chiefs, hearing that Loid Salisbury intends to annex their country to Cape Colony, sent a protest, October 3rd, declaring they will never submit to it. They desire British protection, but wish to remain separate from the Cape. It has been decided to greatly increase the strength of the expedition for the relief of Emm Bey. The British man-of-war Osprey captured off Moeka, on October 9th, three Arab dhows with 204 slaves. The captains of the slaves and four slaves were killed before they surrendered.

MASSACRE OF GERMANS. Advices from Zanzibar at London, October Ist, say that the Germans ab Kilwa, •in sight of one of their own men o'-war, were all murdered by the natives while

bravely defending themselves. An American gunboat was present), but was unable to render any assistance in the face of the armed thousands of natives lying on the beach. The dead were horribly mutilated. The Germans at Lindi Avere saved from a similar fate by the brave conduct of Captain (Jurzow and Lieutenant Walker, who ; landed from a British gun - boat, although the beach was swai'ming with hostile rebels, and brought; them off safely. In a few moments more all would have been massacred. The uprising again&t the Gormans is general and is spreading. It is in tho nature of a "Holy War," instigated by Mohammedan slavedealers, and largely due to the harsh measures of the Gonnan s? themselves. Englishmen as woll as Germans are forced to flee for their lives. The natives are mad with fanaticism. Zanzibariscrowded with Gorman fugitives, arid the natives hold nearly every advantageous point except towns on the coast I protected by German war-vessels. The , English missionaries are safe and also most of tho stations. Tho natives aro disposed to ofl'er extraordinary advantages for the protection of British subjects. The German frigates, Moltke. Stosch, Gneisenau, and Charlotte, which were lying in the Bay of Naples to lire a salute iv honour of the Emperor William on his arrival there, received orders on October 9bh to proceed immediately to Zanzibar. The lour ships carry a complement ol 1,350 men and six by-si^ gun*. A despatch nvmi Zanzibar, October 14fch, says the German soldiers and sailors who recently deserted a gun boat) at Moli&e, roamed about the country killing natives until they were ovcrpoweied, killed and eaten.