THE INDIAN REVOLT. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] (Received April 27th, 11.15 a.m.) Otawa, April 25.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1998, 28 April 1885, Page 2

THE INDIAN REVOLT. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] (Received April 27th, 11.15 a.m.) Otawa, April 25.

Intelligence is to hand from the .scene of the rebellion, Saskatocherwan District, that the Canadian forces under General Middleton, while avancing against the position held by the insurgents under Louis lliel, found a large party of Batanch Indians (allies of the Half-breeds) iv a raviue. Severe fighting took place, with the result that several Indians were killed and fully 50 wounded. General Middleton afterwards surrounded the ravine in the hope of capturing the Calanehes, but a force of rebels came to the relief of the latter, who were thus enabled to retire from their ambush.

EXTRAORDINAKY DISPLAY OF HORSEMANSHIP. — Moscow, 3rd June. — This morning. I witnessed a wonderful display of horsemanship. It took place in tht % Petrovsky Park. Here in presence of the Grand Duke Nicholas and most of the foreign officers, the Guards went through .in extraoidinary series of exercises, w Inch threw the most daring feats of the circus into the shade. The entire regiment went past at full gallop, in loose order, with many of the men standing upright in the saddle, otheis upon their heads, with legs in air, many leapiug on to the ground and thru into the saddle again at full speed, some springing over their horses' heads and picking up stones from the ground, and yet regaininc; their seats. While performing these feats all were brandishing their sabres and firing pistols, throwing their carbines into the air and catching them again, and yelling like maniacs. Some men went past in pairs, standing with a leg on each other's horses —one wild fellow carried off another dressed as a wemau, The effect of the scene was absoluteh/ bewildeiing, "and it aeemed as if the whole regiment had gone mad. Upon a signal being given the regiment divided into two paits. One rode off, the other halted and made their lioi ses he down on the ground, and lay beside them, waiting as in war the approach of an enemy. The other section ot the regiment theu charged down, and in an inatant every horse was on its feet, every rider in his saddle, and, with a wild yells, they rode at their supposed enemy. When the manoeuvres w ere over the regiment rode past singing, and uncommonly well together, a military chorus.— Standard.