SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS AVERTED. ET BLECTBIC " TEI,EORAPH 1 j [PEB PaE§9 ASSOCIATION.] PIETERMARITZBURG, May 16. A Ministerial crisis in Natal, over, he Land Tax Bill, was narrowly iverted, tho Chairman of Committees jeing voted out of the chair. Mr Smythe (Natal Premier) emphasised the need of revenue, and there are indications that the Bill arill be re-introduced, subject to slight imendments. A force under Colonel Baker burnt the kraals in the Ekombi district. Five hundred rebels followed the column, but were repelled, losing five »f their number. Colonel MacKenzie shelled Sigamundi's chief kraal across a precipitous donga of dense bush. LONDON, May 16. Mr,E.' G. Jellicoe applied at Bow Street fotf process on two informations against Sir H. McCallum (Governor of Natal), one by P. Colenso, for acts of oppression in Natal, involving the illegal proclamation of martini law and the homicide of fourteen natives. ' Colonel Marsham decided to hear the application in private and refused to admit a shorthand writer. Mr Jellicoe announced that under the circumstances tho application would -bo withdrawn. Sir T. Ridgway's Committee has concluded its labors.in the Transvaal. It is understood. that the elections will take place in December. , . * PIETERMARITZBURG, May ,16. The rebels are incensed against Bambaata and the witch doctor, on account of their losses in the recent fight. The women are wailing nightly over the dead bodies. : fell us hot our days are numbered, That nothing on this earth can save :Us —4»y coughs and colds encumbered, Straggling to? mastery o'er the grave. ;T»3Kittciit comes undaunted, '£: ■ ■ '■■:: '. V.' '"'•"'''■.''' ■. ■' '