15 AUGUST 1896, Page 2

It really looks as if the Matabele rebellion were at

an end. When, on Sunday last, Colonel Baden-Powell took a column into the Matoppos, be found them deserted by the natives. All the impis had broken up and gone, and there were only one or two men left in charge of thirty cattle, which were captured. The proclamation offering a pardon to those rebels who lay down their arms, is being, it is stated, made known to the fullest possible extent among the enemy, and good results are " confidently anticipated."