NATAL TROUBLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1719, 9 April 1906, Page 3

NATAL TROUBLE.

BAMBAATA’S REBELLION.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Capetown. April 6. Bambaata’s men crawled through, tho grass and would havo surprised the hotel, only loyal natives warned the occupants to fly just in tho nick of - time. Tho lpdies wore seated on the I pommels of the troopers saddles, and the horses, going at full speed, wero .hotly pursued by Kaffirs, who fired 'repeatedly. Forty police arrived to defend tho laager at Keato’s Drift, and sent an urgent appeal to Mansell. The Government are mobilising three thousand jnilitia. Some Zululaud Zulus are with Bambaata. Colonel Mansell organised a flying column, under Inspector Lindsay. Lord Solborne, in opening a railway at Fourteen Streams, saving GO miles between Capetown and Johannesburg, remarked that the New Hebrides was not exclusively an Australasian question, and similarly tho native question id South Africa was not exclusively domestic, inasmuch as the colonies rightly relied on the Motherland’s help in time of emergency. He congratulated Natal on meeting the crisis with firmness and scrupulous justice.

REINFORCEMENTS FROM ALDERSHOT.

Received 4 23 p.m., April 8. London, April 8. A brigade of field artillery at AlderBh.ot is under orders for South Africa. There are twenty thousand regulars at the Cape.

JUNCTION OE FORCES

- ARTILLERY IN READINESS TO y SHELL POSITION. SIEBENDI’3 ZULUS READY TO ' ' ATTACK. Received 4.27 p m., April 8. Capetown, April 7. Reinforcements sent to Greytown from Maritzburg and Durban effected a junction with the force under Colonel Mansell at Botha’s farm. Colonel Leuchars’ commands, with -the TJmvoti Mounted Rifles and Durban Light Infantry and four guns, have arrived.

ixr Artillery is posted on the hills, and preparations are being made to shell .Bambaata’s position. Infantry are being largely employed, careful scouting being necessary ' Besides trained Zulu auxiliaries co operating with Colonel Leuchars, : the chief Siebendi is ready with a large impi to tackle Bambaata in the 'bush, native fashion. Bambaata commandeered a number of loyal natives and forced them to the when attacking the police.