THE NATAL RISING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1775, 14 March 1906, Page 54

THE NATAL RISING.

COUNTRY DISORGANIS ED. APPEAL TO SOUTH AFRICA FOR HELP. LONDON, March 5. Tho “ Daily Mail ” says the Premier of Natal lias reported that tho native outbreak is disorganising the country, and has appealed to South Africa to unanimously support Natal and make a clean job of the business. Preaching in favour of Ethiopian supremacy amongst the natives is calculated to destroy European rule. CAPETOWN, March 5. In connection with the Ethiopian movement one hundred and fifty natives, including twenty from Natal, recently went to the negro colleges in America. CAPETOWN, March 5. The leader of the anti-poll tax movement has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and flogged. CAPETOWN, March 6. Fivo squadrons of mounted infantry, under Colonel Leuchars, surrounded Gabizonbe’s kraal, captured h.m, and .shelled the kraal after the inhabitants had evacuated it. Forty of tbe headmen then tendered their submission. When they asked why their kraal was shelled they were informed that “the guns wore the voice of the supreme chief.” CAPETOWN. March 6. Colonel Leuchars’s operations have proved effective and no.further trouble is feared. Gabizenbe’s cattle and a number of assegais have been brought in. CAPETOWN, March 8. Four hundred Natal natives informed a Magistrate that they were unable to pay tho poll-tax, but the sound of Colonel Leuchars’ guns caused a hundred and fifty to pay immed atcly.