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THE GRAND ADVANCE. ZULU RAIDS AMONGST THE BOERS. • BURNING OF FARMS. TIRING OF THg GHASS BY ZULUS, PLYMOUTH, Wednesday.—The Union Com- WWiv's mail steamship Pretoria, Captain Larmer, reached Plymouth Sound this morn- JB; shortly after five o'clock. Her advices are from Cape Town under date of April 29 Lord Chelmsford and his staff left Maritz- bury for Dundee and Utrecht last Tuesday. The Prince Imperial was to have accom- panied him, but was prevented by indisposi- tion. The General's ultimate destination is be- Keved to be Ka.nbiil i, from which direction j the grmd advance is expected to be made verv shortly. The greatest difficulty at present is trans port, an 1 that difficulty will be very shortly intensified by the tiring of the grass by the Zulus. ) Very heavy rains have been falling lately, and that will fortunately retard the tiring. The rumour current last week, that the Zulu King had changed his tactics and was making raids upon the Utrecht district, is confirmed from Pretoria. 'J he names of several farmers, who have lost all they posesssed, are given. When the Bewa reached the Boer camp a number of farmers left in order to protect their farms. Colonel Wood had his cavalry terribly cut 1Ip at the Zlobani affiur they are the only men able to cope with these raiders. A ZULU'S NARRATIVE OF ISANDULA. Marquenda, Cetewayo's brother, who with 20 followers surrendered a few days ago, aaya that he was present at the buttle or Jsitndula and that the Zulus were defeated "y the British, and about to flee, when the ammunition gave out it was then the Zulus plucked up courage for a rush and over- whelmed our men. The Zulu force numbered 25,000, of whom 11,000 were held in re- serve. They had letc the King's Kraal with Instructions to enter and waste Natal and it was only the defeat of the reserves at Rorke's D ift that prevented them carrying or t their rIaos. ——— BEATH OF SIRAYO AND UMBELINL Captain Prior, of the 80c h, with a pttrol ttfsix mounted men, fell in with some Zulus who were driving off cattle and horses from a Tailcy near the upper Pongola. The Zulus fled and the cattle and horses were recap- tured. Captain Prior and Private Bowen went in pursuit, and at about 400 yards ex- changed shots with two men. one ot whom was killed, and the other wounded. The dead man turned out to be a son of Sirayo, whose surrender W:LS demanded before the Commencement of hostilities, and the woun- ded one, who unfortunately escape 1. was declared by prisoners to have been UuVbe- liiii himself. is stated to have since died of his wounds in a cave. His death is considered as of much impor- tance In its bearing on the present state of affairs, ai he ha=; been one of the most des- perate adherents of Cetywayo, and was evi- dently prepared to show opposition to the last. ———— A GUNNER'S CAPTURE AND ESCAPE. One of Weatherly's horse troopers, named Grandier, engaged at Zlobani, tells a wonder- ful tale. He says he was captured by some Zulus and conveyed to the Bang's K -a.nl) where he was interviewed by Cetywayo, who wanted him to repa'r t ie two guns taken at Iaandula. He says he sa.w the guns spiked. When tha King fo.mdhe could not or would not assist him, he sent him to Umbe- li ni's krr.al, to be sacrificed to the manes of the chief, but he escaped by killing one of the Zulus sent to guard him, the other taking fright. He re- turned to Wood's Column, and reported he saw about 20,000 Zulus marching to Uiinidi. He states when at Uiinidi he saw a Portu- guese who makes gun for Cetewayo. He also saw a man, whom he described as a half- easte Dutchman, who translated for him. Cetewayo lold him he would kill Oham and Siiepstone and every one else, as he had plenty of men to do the work. Grandeer was threatened and beaten, and for four days had nothing but mealies to eat. THE ADVANCE AND THE PROS- PECTS OF SUCCESS. The date of a general advance into Zulu- land is variously fixed by several authorities, but the dace commonly named is about the middle of May. Convoys of provisions are b-jing sent forward, but no details are al- lowed to transpire. The Argus states that all communications between the frontier and atal are under military supervision. The troops are taking with them preserved meat in the form of sausages, and each man car- ries three days' provisions in addition to his kit. Accordingto a correspondent of the Times of Jfatal wit;l Wood's column. Oham considers that it will take some time for the new forces to be reorganised, and that there will probably be one more large fight, which will terminate the war if the Zulus be defeated. He does not think that Cetywayo will sur- render, but that, unless he were killed by his own people and the difficulty so solved, the likelihood was that he would go into exile. I It is rumoured that Dabularnanzi is anxious to surrender. A captured prisoner j states that Dabularnanzi would have done so before, but that a Zulu impi is watching his movements. It is understood that a plan has been per- fected for the invasion of the enemy's country, and that the troops are now in a position to take a forward movement. Every- thing promises well for the campaign, and while our officers and moll are determined and sanguine, rumours are in circulation that lome of the Zulu chiefs are not disposed to renew the conflict. In the Transvaal a better spirit appears to In the Transvaal a better spirit appears to prevail. T..e High Commissioner seems to nave succeeded in satisfying the peopie that they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by resorting to violence, and, without holding out to them any hope of the restora- tion of the Republic, has guided them into more pacific courses than those they have recently followed. THE FIGHTING AND CASUALTIES. The following deaths have occurred since the last mail :—The Hon. Rudolph Gough, from continued diarrhoea; Lieutenant Alder- ton, drowned while crossing a river Assistant Commissioner S. F. Phillimore, Captain Sandham, of the OOtlt Regiment, of fever Privates Ocmilty and Mooaoy, of the 13th Regiment, of wounds. Captain Leth- bridge, of the 90th, is down with fever but Major Hackett is better. The Rev Mr Corbett, military chaplain, has had his leg 'broken by a kick from his horse. The Colonial forces have had three en- gagements with the Korannas on the Orange Br, rer, the last of which was very severe. Tluy cleared the enemy out of one isbnJ, and captured a number of women and chil- dren. Two of our men were dangerously wounded, and four slightly so. Lieutenant Dy;iaon was killed. Amongst the Drisoners taken was a white man named M'Carthy, who is believed to have been leading the enemy. A petty chief, with some 80 fol- lowers, has surrendered in Basutolaud. LIEUTS. MELVILLE AND COGHILL. Colonels Glynn and Detacher and several pfficers went down the Buffalo a few lays back:, and erected a stone to the memory of Lieutenant Melville and Coghill. The bodies were exhumed and placed in coffins, and re-buried under a huge boulder. "Wlide moving the remains or Lieutenant Melville, Colonel Glynn found in his pocket his watch and chain. THE DEFENCE OF RORKE'S DRIFT. The C'ips Times correspondent at Durban, having acknowledged the receipt of the news of the decoration of Chard and Bromhead with the Victoria Cross, says :— While decorations are going about, however, it is to In hoped thai; the mbis fellows who won laurels at Rorke's Drift will not be left out in the cold. I have the story on the best authority, and can therefore vouch for its accuracy as far a.3 any man can vouch for what he has not wit- nessed with his own eyes. On the fatal day ot I an Ihlwana, when the first alarm reached Rorke's Drift that the enemy were Bonnug. Chard was busy at the front, a mile Away from t >e post. In the garrison there was a ilr DjJton, holding an acting com- missariat appointment, who. as a sergeant ¡ i in the 35th Regiment, had received in Sufimr a «o«rsw *»>*t*»>cfcioa ia &ald s Grtification, of which he hal mastered the r general principles. Applying now his knowledge of this art. Dalton proceeded, with such help as he could obtain, to put up roughly-constructed walls of mealie bags, ] biscuit boxes, and any other material at hand. When Chard reached the post, Dalton explained what he had done, and his work met with the entire approval of the engineer 1 officer, who prcceeded to complete the de- fence of the post. It was Dalton who after- wards deliberately formed up the men, and gave the word of command for the first vol- '"3* at 60 I yards. In the severe fight which ensued Dalton was wounded, defending a corner of the rude fortification, which he considered the key to the position and while he was being carried away, he im- pressed upon Lieutenant Chard the import- ance of holding the corner to the last. His sagacity was justified by the result, Dd- ton's namefis honourably mentioned in Lieut. Chard's admirable report.

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