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A FIERCE ENCOUNTER. COLONEL BARKER'S COLUMN ATTACKED. REBELS REPULSED, BUT | RETURN LATER. ' A SMALL BkITISH t'OROE t ALMOST OVEPWHELMED. -J DISASTER NARROWLY J AVERTED. t SIX HUN DRED REBELS KILLED. f Reoeived July 3, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, July 3. Router's Durban correspondent reports that on Monday morning a small irapi attacked Colonel Barker's rearguard a mile outside Noodsberg. J They were repulsed, but returned < two hours later. * One thousand five hundred na s tives attaoked the vanguard. * A small British forne maintained t a steady fire, although the Zulus J advanoed within five yards of the 1 force, almost overwhelming it. I The timely arrival of the main l British foroe averted a disaster by flinging the impi back with heavy I loss. ( Three squadrons are pursuing the ' rebels. * One Britisher was killed, and .two wounded. The Zulus retired iu a northeasterly direction after six hundred had been killed. DEPORTATION OP PRISONERS. Reoeived July 3, 9.30 p.m. - ■ j PIETERMARITZBURG, July 3. j The Natal Assembly read a • seoond time the Bill authorising the | deportation out of the oclony of « prisoners convicted under martial law. A Bill indemnifying the authori- ; ties in oonneution with any future ; Act was pasaei by 18 votes to 13 , votes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 4 July 1906, Page 5
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