THE NATIVE TROUBLE IN NATAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14060, 15 May 1906, Page 7

THE NATIVE TROUBLE IN NATAL.

FIGHTING AT HELPMAKAAR. TRANSVAAL ASSISTANCE. ' United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PIETERMARITZBURG, May 13. Colonel Murray Smith’s force at Helpmakaar attacked Kula’s tribe on Saturday, and killed thirty, and wounded many. They captured a number of cattle. There were no Natakeo casualties. Natal has accepted the Transvaal offer to raise and equip four hundred volunteer infantry, to be called the Natal Rangers, with Maxims, as a scouting troop. Six chiefs on the outskirts of Nkandhla forest hy Dinizulu’s orders have offered to assist the military. They declare that it is impossible to capture Bambaata without much larger native levies. Dinizulu is mustering an impi to punish Bambaata for descrating Cetewayo’e grave. LORD ELGIN’S INTERVENTION. MR DEAKIN’S PROTEST. ' MELBOURNE, May 14. The following is the text of Mr Doakin’s cable message with reference to the Natal question: —“ Since the intervention of the Minister of the United Kingdom with the administration of the self-governing colony of Natal would tend to establish, even with regard to the prerogative of pardon, a dangerous precedent, affecting all States withinthe Empire, I respectfully appeal for reconsideration of the resolution which they are reported to have arrived at on the .matter.” Mr Deakin says that the reason ho withheld the telegram in the first instance from the public was that he was anxious that his action should not bo used for party purposes in England.