FIGHTING IN NATAL.
CONVOY CAPTURED AND RECAPTURED. [press association.l PIETERMARITZBURG. 20th June. ■Rebels captured a convoy and fiv# wagons at Mapumulo. Sixty of th© Mapumulo field force went in pursuit and concentrated five hundred rebels, who were arranging an ambush in a steep donga. The rebels made three determined charges, in one of which they got within ten yards of the attacking force's guns. After fighting Sor ninety minutes the rebels fled across the Tugela River, leaving sixty killed. The convoy was recaptured. THE REBELS' LANDS. (Received June 21, 8.30 a.m.) PIETERMARITZBURG, 20fch June. Mr. C. Yonje, one of the Zululand representatives, will propose in the Natal Assembly the reversion of the rebels* lands to the Crown, and that the lands be leased to Europeans on the military tenure. MAKING ROOM FOR PRISONERS. (Received June 21, 8.30 a.m.) PIETERMARITZBURG, 20th June. The Natal Premier has sent ninety-eight native convicts to work in the Kimberley mines in order to make room for the prisoners captured during the rebellion.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1906, Page 4
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