THE ZULULAND NATIVES. RESERVES DEMOBILISED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 7

THE ZULULAND NATIVES. RESERVES DEMOBILISED.

By Telegraph.— Press Ateoeiation.— Copyright. 1 DURBAN, 20th December. The Vryhoid reserves have been demobilised. Reuter's Vryheid correspondent assertcu earlier in the week that th© order for demobilisation of mounted rifles and other troops had been cancelled, and that the district reserves at Utrecht and Vryheid had been' resummoned. The suddon character of the decision was said to have caused much excitement. A Zululand correspondent -recently wrote as follows to the Natal Mercury : — "ZnluJaKd wants a new race of magistrates, who will combine dignity with unflinching determination. Under Imperial rule, the Zulu was a docile, lawabiding • and respectful subject. Many of the magistrates were exceptional men, imbued with the best traditions ; and whilst at all times observing and insisting on an exact deference to their high position — a deference which newcomers often, and incorrectly, set down to petty motives of personal arrogance— r did not fail in those gentler methods, prompted by a wise' sympathy for a brave and high-spirited subject race. Facilis decensus averni. Within this short period, what a wretched contrast. Suspicion and distrust, ' insolence and murder, restrained antagonism to all and vorything appertaining •to th© white man. 1 only remember one case in all the long ycai's of Imperial rule of a. white man being done to death, and it is said that he had only himself to blame. The isolation, too, in those days was much more pronounced than now, and all the country had to depend upon was a company or two of foot at Eshowe and the native Nongquai. The future historian will have to trace the causes which have induced a once contented and happy people to thus rapidly degenerate into criminals and criminal harbourers, defying authority, and saturated .with tho belief that the white man, his humanising 'ruler, is his > bitterest and most implacable enemy." MILITARY DESTROYS FORTY-FIVE HUTS A PROTEST TO BE SENT TO BRITISH PREMIER. DINIZULU'S UNBLEMISHED LOYALTY. (Received December 21, 8.16 a.m.) DURBAN, 20th December. The military destroyed forty-five huts at Dinizulu's Natamba kraal. Dr. Clifford, Mr. Frederick Harrison, and other leaders intend to memorialise Sir H. Campbell Bannermak (British Prime Minister), protesting against the Natal Government's treatment oi Zulus, and declaring that Dinizulu's past^ecord has been, one of unblemished integrity.