... NORTH AFRICA. SHOCKING MASSACRE BY ARABS. A Paris correspondent, under date of the sth inst., mays: Details of a shocking massacre at Geed Zerghe have been received. The Arabs there were infuriated at the order given by General Sabatier to destroy some ...

... East Africa, or in any one or of the chain of missions that have been established on the great lakes of Central Africa. These movements are, he thinks, most briefly and best described by the words, the later Arab invasion of East Central Africa. The ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. THE TRANSVAIL AND BRITISH BUY. The following intelligence from Town, bearing the date of Match 136, comas by Bastenx and South African &Ars : The Transeaal Isgidativz Assemble was opened on the 10th of March by the Admin./a' tretor, Colonel ...

... THREATENED WAR WITH ASHANTEE. A Cape Coast Castle eorrevp3ndent, under date of January 3rd (by telegraph from Madeira), says: An Ambassador from the Kiug of Ashantee has arrived here and demandtd of the Governor the surrender of Gamin, a native chief ...

... requiring to be done over again. It seems indeed more probable that if our war preparations, which are going on simultaneously in England and India, are followed up by actual war, there will be Turkish as well as Egyptian troops to encounter. During the ...

... THE WAR OFFICE. The Committee of Public Accounts in their first report this year, state that there is a deficit of £44,197 2s. fid. upon the Army. Appropriation Account. The committee add that they have endeavoured to trace the cause of this excess, ...

... TRANSVAAL WAR THE LAST SURRENDER. appears from received from South Africa that the garrison at Potchefstrootn surrendered the Boers on the p&me day that the peace conditions were signed. The surrender was precede by some hard fighting, in which eighteen ...

... toria 23rd January, forwarded b$ post tii u eat k d ash a ntee WAR. TRANSPORT TROOPS. A Council was held Monday evening, the War Office, which the tbr* state *»f affairs on the Meat Co st -f Africa was acatu di» ...

... present undecided. The Boers express their confidence that, in the event of hostilities being resumed, the war will extend over the whola of South Africa, they affirm that the Dutch populations, both of the Free State and the British colonies, are ready to ...

... they were, of all the tribes of South Africa, the most hopeful and and the fastest friends of British rule. At the present moment the Basuto@ occupy the most advanced position of all the tribes of South Africa. In the year 1869 the chiefs wore only blankets ...

... Mi4-3 6 : e / 13 iota_ SOUTH AFRICA. TAR CAPS steamer Pretoria arrived at Plymouth, leaving left Cape Town oa the 9th ult. She brings letters and newspepers up to that date. The Cape Metes says : Advice' hare been received that Lobengula has opened his ...

... TRIG GREER WAR PREPARATIONS. The Greek Government has ordered sixty Whitehead torpedoes, at • cost of £3600. from Fiume. They are to be delivered within a very *lion time. Triage continues to rend arms to Greeee t 1600 horses have been bought at Pesth ...