MATABELELAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4623, 16 January 1894, Page 2

MATABELELAND.

f b How Captain Wilson's Men i Met their Fate. 1 A Desperate and Gallmt . '' Stand. % ' 3 ;Tiooper Voqel Among the ■ i Victims. 0 Capetown, January 18, ' Details of the disaster in Matabele* 8 land to Captain Wilson's detachment 1 are now to hand. Tliey show that after King Loben--1 gula had sought flight on horseback,. 3 the Matabele agaia faced their pursuC ers, who made a gillant stand. 0 The horses of the British wero shot • down, and behind these they held the enemy at bay ;ill the last, and used their revolvers with great effect. Eventually the Matabele, who over, whelmed- the British in nanbers, - made a rushing attack, Snd using their assegais with deadly effect, killed" e all the detachment. ,' 1 Captain Wilson's force of the following:— Captains Fi!i- : '^ e gerald, Judd, Greenfield, Kirton, ani !. Barrow; Lieutenants Hughes and: 8 Hofmeyer j Sergeants Harding r . Brow, Bradburn, and Barkley; Cor--1 norals Kinglock and Colquhoun f Troopers Welby (2), Robertson, Hel- | lett, Dillon, Money, Vogel (son of n Sir Julius Vogel), Lewis, Devoi, Wat- \ son, Brock, Britton, Bath, Nunn, r Thompson, Abbot, Mackenzie, and 0 iMeiklejohn. ■, ' Further information has been re--1 Reived that the Matabelo at Inyoya have murdered white travellers from s the Zambesi. Major Forbes has been found guilty i of incapacity, and has been super* seded in command at Buluwayo. Tbe Court of Enquiry set up to investigate the shooting of two of King Lobej)gula's envoys atTati has acquitted all concerned from blame. The Coutt attributed the shooting to the « omission of Mr Dawson (theßuluwayo ' trader who accompanied the envoys) to inform the oflioials of the status of the victims. Trooper Watson, one of Captain:' Wilsons' detachment, was a brothi*: of Mrs Jesiie Blake, of Gishorno; J * M Trooper Yogol (says tlio I'ost) to a native of'Wellington,and was about--22 years of a'ge. Shortly after finishing his education at the Charterhouse l he entered thi servico of the Chartered Company, anf| subsequently on the outbreak of war he volunteered for military service. His elder brother, Mr H. B. Vogel, is at present attending the Land Cduvu at Moawhanga, Inland Patea,