ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted'by E. D. HOBEN, Editor & Proprietor. Published Every Mokning. Friday. December 6, 1907. MORE THROUGH IN NATAL.

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ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted'by E. D. HOBEN, Editor & Proprietor. Published Every Mokning. Friday. December 6, 1907. MORE THROUGH IN NATAL.

Once more the armed riflers are moving in Natal, and the machine gnns are getting ready to mow down ota: colored brethem.. Tlie more the unbiassed outsider knows cf Sooth; African affairs the more sceptical is he with regard to them* It is pretty generally realised now how the Boer war was engineered, and the Band companies have siac© made it very clear that they don't want the colonials who fought; fori them to remain to work their • minesi Neither do they want Englishmen They prefer Chinese slaves. II isv but incidental that the astute. Chinese emptied their prisons into th©» compounds, so that when the geafcle* Celestial working men broke from their cages, outrage stalked red in the Band and no woman in a lonely farm house was safe. Just as innAfaica all scheming centres round • the exploiters of the Band, so these Natal disturbances have to be traced i back to intrigue. First there was-; «&e labor question. The natives af tear the war had not immediate nged; of work in the mines, and to dritte them in and also to break up .th&».American Methodist Missions—otlwcwise the Ethiopian Church—the p/iij; tax was imposed, A more iniquitous thing was never done in tha name of fair government. It- was admitted as the tax was pass,ed.lthis it would be impossible for, the great bulk of the natives to pay it. It was prophesied that to enforce it would lead to bloodshed. It was admitted that the Ethiopian Church proceeded on lfcaes of peaceful organisation, to eecifcre some political recognition for the native. But the Natal <Bioy,ernment forced the situation till the expected arrived, and then Bamibaata's.Spibesnien, largely unarmed, ' were deliberately cornered in a gully and butchered wholesale in such cold-blooded and callousfashion that one sickened with the very reading of tlie storv and tho ghastly boasts as to the "Sportiug" character of the "kills" and the "fun" some members of the expedition claimed to have had as the helpless brown j men vainly sought shelter from the ! hellish hail, when dawn broke and [ the mists rose from the death trap. Dinizulu may have incited murder I or contemplated revolt—there are those who claim that he has done neither. There may have been truth in the allegations or they may bo a mere pretext—-and the race problem in South Afrioa is sufficiently awe some to make all thoughtful njeu

pause arict pray for solution—but there is too often something in South African methods and manners strangely at variauce , with the spirit of Christianity and humanity.