SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
TIM: MATABELE YIELDING
NATIVE MINERS STRIKE AT PRETORIA.
Cai'K Town. Oct. 13. Hundreds of Matabele are yielding to the British, and are being supplied with seed to cultivate their country. Many of the powerful chiefs report that the surrender will soon bo general. I'ni.Toni.v, Oct. 1;{. Six thousand natives engaged in the mines on the Rand have struck for an increase of wages. There is a tendency to violence, and the police are protecting the workers. The troops, too, are in readiness to suppress any outbreak.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 145, 14 October 1896, Page 3
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89SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Hastings Standard, Issue 145, 14 October 1896, Page 3
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