DINIZULU'S TRIAL. EVIDENCE OF NATIVE WITNESSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1908, Page 7

DINIZULU'S TRIAL. EVIDENCE OF NATIVE WITNESSES.

SHELTERING EEBELS. CHARGE OF MURDERING A CHIEF. By Telegraph.— Press Association —Copyright. (Received January 27, 9 a.m.) DURBAN, 26th January. Native witnesses stated that Dinigulu sheltered rebels from the troops during the last conflict. Ono loyal chief denounced in his presence was soon afterwards nvuvdered. The chief Baboko, Dinizulu'e brother-in-law deposed that Dinizulu had applied to him to send men and weapons, bufc Baboko refused. Dinizulu is 37 years of age. He is physically a big man, subject to the natural corpulence which characterised his father's family. He has a high brainy forehead, a long head, and strong chin. He does not shave, but wears a full-sized beard. His expression is thoughtful, One of his remarks was : "Truly, a heavy burden is theirs whose duty it is to speak for the people." He is (recently stated a writer in a contemporary) careful to tell you always that it is "the people" who think so and so ; and thereby what he says carries the weight of tho people. Ho speaks English, though not an English schola*. He is, however, a perfect Zulu scholar and a fluent writer in his own language. In correspondence, us shown in a recent letter, his instincts towards European ladies are also thoroughly polished. The Zulus, before becoming demoralised by Europeans, are gentlemen in their conduct, and in every deportment, in language, and in everything. It is the European who makes them otherwise. To his guests Dinizulu is most hospitable and generous. He keeps a special brick building apart from others, for theftt, and at once, on arrival, an English-speaking native valet is told off to look after you. Tho valet sleeps at your door at night; day and night you are cared for. But unless you know him or you are properly introduced Dinizulu is, of course, inaccessible, as obviously ho has to be careful of "his friends." At night you can have his grainaphone, with all the latest English tune 3, or, if he is well, he will play to you an English^ organ — and siug to you, too, in the. English language. Hb favourite air is "Home, sweet home." He learnt it ■when in exile, and will never forget it.