The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-01 00:00:00

THE ZULU WAR.

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The Union Company', stunner Nyanza arrived here
on Saturday ,'bringing news from Capstown
to the 10th init. The remains of the Prinoe_lmprial
were to be despatched to Capetown In the Boadicea.
From there they will be conveyed home in the Orontes.
The accounts of the manner in which the Prince
Imperial met with his death are conflicting. Accord-
ing to the official statement 50 Zulus surprised the
party, who were resting neat a mulls field. In the
general flight the Priam Imperial rode into • donee,
where a body of Zulus lay concealed. According to
Independent accounts the alarm wet given by • Kaffir
belonging to the party at the moment the latter were
about to mount, when the Zulus fired • volley and
killed ono trooper. The Prism being unable to monist
his hone, which was restive, ran by the horse's side
until be was overtakee by the Zulus and eseegaird.
Tbesurvivors rode in the dcrection of Colonel Wood's
camp, and met him and Colonel Bulbar on the way.
Information was immediately conveyed to Lord
Chelmsford. and • strong cavalry party wee
despatched to recover the body, which was found in
the donga, and conveyed to the camp, where the
funeral service was read over the body by the Roman
Catholic chaplain, in presence of the whole division
paraded for the occasion. Lord Chelmsford acted as
chief mourner.

ihe—Q;--wae. subsequently removed to Pieter-
maritzburg, where it was received by the Lieutenant
Governor, the Colonial S.cretary, and the officers of
the garrison. and placed in th. Roman Catholic
Church, where it lay in state. The remains are to
arrive on the Mb instant at Durban, whence they
will be converd, escorted by the garrison, on board
Her Majesty. ship Boadicea, which will proceed
immediately to Simon's Bay. There the body will be
transferred on board Her Majesty's troopship Orontee,
in charge of Colonel Pemberton.

a-c-,;:in-pan—y-i—nihe--Prinoe at the time of
his death consisted of init. Carey. of the 98th
Regiment, six troopers, and one Kaffir, who were
under the Prince's command, and its object is stated
to have been to select a site kr a future camp.
Authentic information received here represente
Lord Chelmsford to have been unaware of the despatch
of this expedition. The Princes body wee found
stripped of all clothing, but bad not suffered any
mutilation, and the reliquary which he wore suspen.
dad by a chain from his neck, together with his watch
and rings, were found lying near the spot where be
felL . .

—deneral Newdigate's division has advanced to the
fields River, Al miles beyond the Blood River, where
an entrenched position is to be formed. General
Crealock leaves to-morrow for Fort Cheltodord. The
division will then cross the Ulslazl River and
establish it. base at Port Durnforcl. Her Majesty's
run vessel Forester leaves immediately for Port Duni.
ford. While a body of Lancers were skirmishing
with the enemy, Adjutant Frith and a trooper were
killed. Colonel Pearson is at present invalided, and
Colonel Rowlands has sumeeded to his command.
. . . . .

A colonial force has again unsuccessfully attacked
hiairosi's mountain stronghold. Two of the yeomanry
cavalry were killed and twelve wounded in the affair.
Sir Barth Frees warn received with extraordinary
enthusiasm on his return to Cape Town. The town
warn gaily decorated, and there was an illumination in
the evening. The proposed banquet in his Excellency's
honour has been postponed in consequence of the
death of the Prince Imperial.
General Newdigate's division had advanced twenty
miles beyond the Blood River. There had been some
cavalry skirmishes with the Zulus, in one of which
Lieut. Frith, of the 17th Lancers, was killed. Some
kraals were brunt, Three Zahn had come into
Wood's camp as emissaries of Getywayo, but they
were prepared with no definite pesos proposals,
Three Three chiefs had also arrived at Fort Chelmsford
with • romsage from Cetywayo. While at the
fort a false rumour arrived of an attack on Wood,
and the chiefs were handcuffed and detained. The
Colonial forces have sustained another repulse in
Baautoland.