NEWS OF THE WEEK
EKOWE has been relieved, to the deep gratification of the country, and without great loss of life. Lord Chelmsford, who, in spite of his telegram dated Natal, 1st April, appears to have joined the relieving column, which arrived on 1st April at Ginglihovo, and was there infoimed by heliograph from Ekowe that the Zulus were ad;ancing. The camp was, therefore, sur- rounded with a', sheltering ditch, and when the enemy attacked at four a.m. . on April 3rd, they were met by a steady fire from the breech-loader-1i and Gatlings. The Zulus came on most gal- lantly, the officers and correspondents who report the affair'all describing their conduct with admiration ; but they could not stand the fire, and after reaching within twenty yards of the entrenchment, retreated. Four hundred bodies were found immediately, around the camp, and it is believed that 1,200 perished.- The British ,lost in- killed only one officer and two men. On the same day Lord Chelmsford, with a column of 2,500 men, without waggons, started for Ekowe, and met Colonel Pearson outside his encampment. The entire garrison- wiiich had lost two officers and 30 men from fever, had 150 men sick, and had consumed all its bread, though not all its meat-Lwas withdrawn on the 5th, and Ekowe abandoned, as unhealthy. A new camp is to be formed at Ginglihovo, and the remainder of the army will return behind the Tugela, there to await orders for the general advance upon the King's kraal, -which will take place early in May.
