SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE NATAL NATIVE RISING.

CAUSES FOR ANXTETYr

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

CAPE TOWN, March 16. The chief Messini Swaymana brought to Lieutenant-colonel Lenchar's camp 120 natives, 50 of whom were present at the Richmond affray, where a police force was attacked, the remainder being the fathers of the men implicated in the attack. Messmi declares that the sons are hiding. All the fathers have been detained until thensons are brought in. There is some alarm in the Unsinga district, Natal. A native induna, after warnbig a clergyman of impending danger, fled, fearing arrest. He and some armed followers are hiding in inaccessible kloofs on the Buffalo River. The chief Umbubuk, ef Rorke's iXrift, has assembled his followers in the vicinity of Rorke's Drift. After arming the majority, he gathered together the women, (Mdren, and stock. The ' Daily News' remarks on the significance of the extension of the disturbance, as it brings the movement almost- within the sphere of the Zulus.

.[Rorke's Drift was made famous in the last Zulu War. After the defeat of the Bntish at Isandula, some thousands of Zulus swept down to Rorke's Drift, where they were held in cheek by a small force of about 120 men under Lieutenants Bromehead and Chard. The attack lasted throuirhout the night, but the British, tliough lufftrmg severely and sheltered only by a hastily improvised breastwork of bags and earth, beat back the enemy, wh-> decamped next day. Cetewayo was ultimately 'defeated by "Lord Chelmsford at Ulundi*', became a part of the British Empire.]