Natal Native Trouble.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3870, 7 May 1906, Page 4

Natal Native Trouble.

Pietermaritzburg, 3

A thousand r- bid,-, a* Lkmno H It compelled a supply column of a hundred men to form a Lag r at, Eittel, Colonel Mansel relieved them, nut disaster was narrowly averted. Sixty native* tried to cut off a body of scouts at Ukanhla ai d five of natives were kdled after a shm p brush. Twelve kraals have been burnt.

REGULARS OFFERED.

ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE

Pietermaritzburg, May 4

Mr Smytbe, Premier of Natal, bae informed Parliament that the g n-ral commanding Pretoria had "fifer. d 4300 regulars at short notice. The Government had replied that tbe moral effect of Imperial troops was incalculable, since tbe natives vthoughl Imperial assistance would never again be rendered. He anticipated that the regolata would be required for active service, an 1 be would be obliged if i battalion w rv sent to Pietermaritzburg, Natal paying tbe expenses of transit.

MURDERS IN ZULULAND.

PiETERMAJcmBimo, M«y 4.

A magistrate and policeman, while tax collecting, where murdered at. aMblnbit.ini. Zululand,

The Magistrate, Stainbank, ho companied by bis wife, another lady, and a policeman, Fellards, collected the tax unopposed till they reached the souti» bank of the White Unvoices, on the Vryheid border, where the natives volleyed without warning. Two were wounded, and the party fled fen miles unmolested to Mablnbitini, where Stainbank, on reaching the magistracy, expiredFellards is still alive.