TWO AGAINST FIFTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 256, 26 October 1907, Page 13

TWO AGAINST FIFTY.

NATAL POLICE SHOW NATIVES HOW,v TO USE FISTS. A story of magnificent bravery on the part of a sergeant ana trooper of the Natal police has just come to light at Estcourt. Some mouths ago a native doctor named Unikuba was attacked and seriously injured by a number of other natives between Chieveley and Tabanihiope. The Natal podoe at Colenso were notified, and Sergeant Wright, with Trooper Stuart, went in pursuit of the miscreants. One of tUa summit of a hill shouted that lie was being killed by the police, whereupon some lifty natives, fully armed, swept down on the troopers, who knowing that retreat wou : il almost certainly be fatal, stood their ground. The horde gradually closed in on them, shouting and gesticulating wildly. When within a few yards Sergeant Wright shouted to tuern to halt, and ns they did not need the summons the two plucky Englishmen dashed in amongst them and used his fists to such good purpose that the natives were utterly demoralised, fifteen of them, being arrested on the Mjot. The bravery of the sergeant and the trooper might never have been heard of but for an action brought at Estcourt by L'mkuba against one of his assailants, when the narrative came out in the course of the evidence.