CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 280, 26 June 1860, Page 4

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

(From the Argus.) Captain Rogers, of the American barque H. E. Spearing, has favored us with the following items ofnewaup to the date of his sailing from Algoa Bay—-namely, April 4 :— The Governorship of the Cape Colony had not been decided by the Home Government. The colonists were expecting the re-appointment of Sir George Gray. The Cape Parliament would meet on the 27th of April, when the question of railways was ex-: pected to ekcite considerable attention... \ The cattle disease (lung sickness)'; waS still prevalent among horned cattle. ' Many thousands |iatL perished. The price of beef bid advanced in>cOnrsetiuence.-'.. '.....-'_*., ' I t -r-c ■The Natal district was talked of as b6<36ihin£a. sugar-producing country. Samples of a -superior' quality had been exported. -'v The free State Government had elected Prelo f rius as their President. This would lead to the fusion ofthe Trans-Vaal States into one large republic. ~■:' Considerable excitement has been occasioned in Cape Town by the arrival of some ticket-of-leave men from Australia. The inhabitants were about to convene public meetings to express their disapprobation, and to remonstrate against such arrivals. ''"'.'■

Some Nova Scotia emigrants for New Zealand had £12 allowed them hy the Ca^e Government, as part of passage-money, on their remaining in that place, instead of proceeding to New Zealand.

On the whole the Colony of the Cape enjoyed peace and prosperity.