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UNKNOW. TO BE INDICTE D. FOR MURDER.

Gy Telegraph.— Press Vsociation — Ocpyriglit. LONIJOX, 30th JanuaTy. Reuters Pieter a aritzburg correspondent says it is un ir.-rstood -that a warrant for murder will toe issued against Dinizulu in connect' o; i with the assassination of Mr. Stamb?j]?{, a magistrate. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. FORM OF. DINIZULU 'S TRIAL. v (Received January 31, 8.33 a.m.) '"LONDON, 30th January. The Bluo. Gook on the rising in Natal chows thafl there was a divergence of rpinion. Bel ween Lord Elgin, Secretary for the. d>lonie3, and the Government of Nattvl, regarding the measures to suppress, uhe rising. In v despatch, dated the 21st, the Colonial Government desired to maks ifc clfir that it was never intended to try ?JirJzulu by court-martial, or etherwise than under the Criminal Procedure. 'Act. Tte <-3se against Dicizulu turns chiefly \\\vai hi-3 complicity with the chief Bambatei in last yonr's icboliion. The nativos In Zululand had baen in a state of v-eiled l><X.ti",ity long baiore open rebellion broke •'Mi,, and it was penernlly conceded by fcliose* lnving knowledge- of tho country that Bambaki would slot hare taken the iielcl unless incited to do so by Ins paramount chief. The ■evidence of one of BambaLi's wires at tho trial supports this view. Sh© staled that sha with her family lived in the bush when the disturbance bioko out, and. after many wanderings, met Bambata, who siiidi sho and lier family should accompany him to Zululand, as a man had been sent for him. They wont to Zululand, Bawbata reachinpr Usutu Kraal before the others. She met Bambata at Usutu, and asked! him why ,he had been, called. Bambata replied that he had been scolded, and asked why he allowed 1 whites to come to him, and< why he had r.ot fought them. H© said he did not know how to fight whites, whereupon he was nsked if he had no people, and he zeplied that they were few. Subsequently they had bser in Dinizulu's Kuropoan house. Mankulumana was called out by Dinizulu, and Bambata was subsequently called by Mantulumana, who said. : "We, have called you hem to tell you to go back and fight. Here is a weapon (a gun) we give you ; we do not want you to go and fight by yourself; we want you to begin, then we will do the fighting." On tho way back to his hut Bambaia showed them, bullets, and said' that he had to cross the Tugela again to begin to collect tho impi, and Dinizulu would meet him at Nkandhla. Sho saw the Nkandhla rebels at Usutu, and Dinizulu knew that they were tbsre.

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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7

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UNKNOW. TO BE INDICTE D. FOR MURDER. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7

UNKNOW. TO BE INDICTE D. FOR MURDER. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7