CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 175, 24 June 1859, Page 4

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

By way of Mauritius, we ('Melbourne Herald) have intelligence from the Cape to the 19th of April. We take the following from the Commercial Gazette: —

The Monitor of the 16th states, with regret, that " the small-pox has reappeared among the colored classes at Stellenbosh." A vote of censure was passed on the government by the House of Assembly on the 12 th April Lord Derby has excited his patronage in the appointment of Auditor-General in opposition to Sir George Grey. Both houses of Parliament support the Governor's nomination of Mr. Southy. Mr. Murray, the Civil Commissioner of Victoria, and one of his attendants were recently murdered by Kaffirs. A despatch has been received from the Imperial Government disapproving of the scheme of federal union with the free state, 'etc., as proposed by the Governor, and asking the parliament to agree to the annexation of British Kaffraria to the colony. ' Mr. Andrews, the Resident engineer for Table Bay Breakwater, and the contractor's agent arrived by the last mail, and are actively engaged in arranging the preliminaries. Further particulars respecting the lost boat from H.M.E.LS. Elphinstone, have reached us by the arrival of the barque Susquehanna, Capt. W. Nunn, from Kooria Mooria Islands, which place she left on February 11. She reports that the boat containing the second lieutenant, chief boatswain's mate, and seven men belonging to H.M.E. Indian Government ship Elphinstone had been lost, and it was feared that all hands had perished, as the gale in which the open boat and her unfortunate crew were overtaken, lasted some days. The Elphinstone succeeded in picking up a schooner belonging to Bombay, which was also blown out from the Island of Jubelee, one of the Kooria Mooria group.