SOUTH AFRICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

(Press Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copyright]

LONDON, April 12,

In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Mr Churchill said that martial law in Natal was being administered with very great care and wisdom. Sir H. McCallum, Governor of Natal, acting on the Executive Council's advice, exercised his clemency in five cases in which the death sentence had been passed. In the House of Commons Mr Churchill, in reply to Sir Gilbert Parker, said that the Government were fully alive to the importance of the question of land -settlement in the Transvaal and Orange River colonies, and would carefully consider any scheme that was proposed. Sir J. West Ridgway's committee would inquire into feasible arrangements to prevent the possible dispossession of new settlers. LONDON, 'April 13. The Times notes an improvement in tlie Government's tone in South African affairs generally! PIETERMARITZBURG, April 13. Zulus are volunteering to capture Bambaata. The Government have temporarily refrained from employing' white forces, wishing the Zulus to show their loyalty, and has the greatest confidence in them'. Natal police are holding the middle drift of the Tugela to prevent Bam baa ta doubling back.

Bambaata and twenty followers were seen on Wednesday on the outskirts of a forest near Cetawayo's old stronghold. The chief Skauda is under observation; being suspected of succouring Bambaata.

(Received April 14, 7.9 a.m.) Advices show that Monsell's column is on the heels of Bambaata's main force. The Zulu scouts have proved invaluable. A volunteer impi of Zulus,, under Colonel Saunders, Chief- Commissioner, joins Colonel Mansell to-day.

LONDON, April 13. M. Yves Guyot, writing to the Paris paper Le Siecle, says if Sir H. C. Bannennan suppressed Chinese labor he would seriously injure the gold industry and prosperity of South Africa, committing as serious a blunder as^tvheu Mr Gladstone signed the Majuba Convention.