MATABELELAND.
Capetown, Jan. 16. The party under Captain Wilson had reached King Lobengula's waggon when the Matabele ieturnei and assailed them. The natives had the advantage in numbers and surrounded the detachment. The fight lasted for six hours, when the cartridges giving out firing ceased. The Matabeles found many of the party who were mortally wounded writing farewell messages to their friends. Several of the wounded drew their revolvers and made a final but unsuccessful effort. The natives piled the bodies of the English in a heap. The Cape Times publishes the conditions for the settlement of Matabele.'and. They include grauts of laud for natives. Mr Cecil Rhodes insists on free trade in that country, with a view of assisting the products of Cape Colony. Jan. 17. Later details show that Captain Wi son and Captain Barrow and the majority of the detachment could have escaped, but they refused to desert those whose horses had been killed. Lobengula wished to yield to the British, but the Indunas prevented him doing so, and it is said that he is now afraid |to give himself up in face of the disaster which befel Captain Wilson's party.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2610, 20 January 1894, Page 3
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194MATABELELAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 2610, 20 January 1894, Page 3
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