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NEWS FROM THE CAPE. ] CAPK TOWN, Oct. '2 (via Madeira).—Fighting Commenced in the Transkei on the 24th Septem- ber, when the Gatekas attacked the Fongoes and 120 police at South Mapassa. They subsequently retired, however, with a loss of about 200 men. On Sept. 29th 8000 Gatekas attacked the camp at Ibeka. After four hours' fighting the assailants were repulsed and pursued for a distance of two miles. Since then there has been no serious fighting. The loss on the British tide in all the engagements has been one officer killed and six men wounded. There is no truth in the report that the Grikas are disaffected. All the adjacent tribes remain loyal. The Custom returns for Cape Colony dur- ing September last show an increase of 14 per cent., as compared with September, 1876. The ship Inch Kenneth, owned by the Clutha Shipping Company, Glasgow, foundered off Cape' St. Francis on September 24th. Only the first and second officers and six of the crew were saved. The captain died from exposure. The survivors were brought to Cape Town by the ship Liverpool. Donald Currie and Co's steamer Stettin is ap- pointed to leave Cape Town on Oct. 3, with troops and stores for East London. Two hundred men of the 88th Regiment had left Simons Bay, in H.M.S. Active, to land if necessary at Mazeppa Bay to attack the Krelis army in the rear. Sir Bartle Frere and Lieut.-goner al Sir Arthur Cunninghame, Commander of the Forces, were both present at the scene of the disturbance. The fighting between the Gatekas and Fongoes had not been very serious. Two hundred police took part in the last fight with satisfactory results.

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