THE ZULU REBELLION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13286, 19 September 1906, Page 7

THE ZULU REBELLION.

~ CAPTAIN MACEARLANE'S DEATH. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— London, September 17. The Daily Mail's Durban correspondent says that Captain Macfarlane, who was killed in the Zulu rebellion in June last, was accidentally shot by a bullet fired by a colonial on the other side of the gorge which separated them.

Lieutenant Marsden, of Royston's Horse, who was" mortally wounded on the same occasion in a mist and semi-darkness, was mistaken for a rebel and shot.

Captain Macfarlane was a trooper of the -fcirst feouht African Contingent, with which lie served for two years. He was given a commission and the Distinguished Service tJrdor. Alter the war.ho bought a farm in -Natal. The battle of Momo Hill, in which He was killed, was fought in a fog, and it arose from Colonels McKenzio and Barker attempting to ■ hem Bambaata's force in a gorge. As Captain Macfarlane. was bearing up the goigo with his men, he got to close quarters with the rebels, and poured vollevs into them, upon which they fled. After the rebels had turned and fled, Captain Macfarlane throw up his hands and cried, "Oh God! Ho had been shot through the heart. In the same engagement Lieut. Marsden was mortally wounded. Bainbaata was killed in ttus eagageaieuti