CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have received Cape intelligence to the Slst March. The following embrace the chief items of interest:—
The governorship of the Cape Colony bad not yet been decided by the Home Government. ' The colonists were expecting the reappointment of Sir George Grey. The Cape Parliament would meet on the 27th April, when the question of railroads was expected to excite considerable attention. The cattle disease, called the lung sickness, was still prevalent among the horned cattle.] Many thousands had perished, and the price] of beef had risen in consequence. The TVatal district was expected to become a sugar producing country, samples of a superior quality having been exported. Considerable excitement prevailed in Cape Town by the airival of some ticket-of-leave men from Western Australia. Some emigrants from Nova Scotia for New r Zealand, wrecked at Simon’s Bay, had .=£l2 allowed them by the Cape government on condition of their settling in the Cape.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 196, 21 June 1860, Page 4
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157CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 196, 21 June 1860, Page 4
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