DINIZULU.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13575, 6 December 1907, Page 5

DINIZULU.

• _ EVIDENCE OF WIDESPREAD SEDITION. AN "INJURED INNOCENT" PLEA. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. DURBAN, December 5., It is stated that tlio Government has evidence of a recent series of murders of loyal natives. Thero is also evidence that it was intended to force all the tribes of tho district into one camp and then to signal a general rising. The Government's action took the conspirators by surprise and saved the lives of other loyalists, including tho chief Sibinni, whom the Government is specially' protecting owing to his fidelity at a critical period in the rising of last year. The Natal Advertiser's correspondent at Eshowe states that Dinizulu has repeatedly offered to go to Maritzburg whenever required. He is ill, suffering from swollen legs. . The .Commissioner of Zululand conferred with Colonel Mackenzie, and accompanied a portion or" the troops to :the front. Dinizulu telegraphed to the Government expressing surprise at the preparations, and asking why, if it was thought v he was in the wrong, he was not tried and punished if guilty. The telegram is attributed to the presence of two hundred police, who are watching Usutu until the main force arrives. The Government acknowledged the message, but has not modified its plans. Colonel Mackenzie has absolute power and discretion to act, with a view to ending the intolerable situation.