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Show Tne Znin Wit p. Capo Town, March 11. Reinforcements Reinforce-ments are arriving, aud the relief of Ekowe will he attempted. An unsuccessful unsuc-cessful endeavor was made yesterday to communicate with Eiowo garrison by signal, Xing Cetewayo'a brother Oham's overtures for tubmissiou were a ruse to cover his retreat to Swazielaud. The reports that Cetewayo sent mes sengers io sue for peace are false. A body of Basutos crossed the river Terle on tho 8th instant, stole- some hordes aud fired on the colonial forces, who repulsed them with a bss of twenty killed. All is quiet in Traoovmil. Marilbbur,;, March 11. Several j natives, induced by large rewards, started (or Enowe with dispatches for , Colonel Fearaon, but returned, re-, re-, porting the roads destroyed, every approach commanded by military ; kraal forts and the country swarming ! with Zulus. With the utmost care Col. Pearson's supplies, it is believed, , will be exhausted by the end ol 1 March. The expedition organizing on the Lower Tugela for relief amounts to fourteen companies of regulars. As soon as the native contingent con-tingent is sufficiently strong the expedition ex-pedition will he pushed forward, A serious breach has occurred between be-tween Sir Bartle Frere and the governor gov-ernor of Natal, iu consequence of the harsh measures auctioned by the former to conscript natirej. London, 30. A dispatch from Capo Ti'wu states that CjI. Wood ii entrenched en-trenched at lJonglo wailing for reinforcements, rein-forcements, iu consequence of Beveral unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the enemy in iho mountains. |
