SOUTH AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

! NATIVE TROUBLE, NATAL. Received July 9, 9.53 p.m. Johannesburg, July 9. There is increasing unrest among the natives ot South Africa. Five hundred assegais and knobkerries have been seized in the Rand mine compounds. The Kaffir boys implore their mistresses {o hurry" to the coast. Received July 9, 9. 53 p.m. Fieteruaaritzburg, July 9. Colonels Mackenzie, Leucbars and Wools Sampson, with a force of two thousand, including native levies, completely surrounded an impi in the Umvoti gorge, killing five hundred and forty-seven, a few escaping. There were rid white casualties. Received July 9, 11.30 p.m. Capetown, July 9. General Botha, speaking at Heidelburg, insisted that the British Government must leave the whites to settle the South African native problem. ; Mr Smuts stated that the on}y chance of repudiating the t thirty million war debt lay in keeping.the progressives out of power. , London, July 8. j With regard to the statement that Mr Keir Hardie, M. P., had written to a Zulu student at Edinburgh denouncing the action of the Natal Government in the native rebellion, it is now stated that Mr Hardie has bflen hoaxed. His Edinburgh correspondent proves to be a Sierra Leone native who is~a medical student, and nri+ o #ii?n. aa rnnrfiHAntflrJ.