Natal Native Trouble.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3871, 9 May 1906, Page 4

Natal Native Trouble.

STERN REPRESSIVE MEASURES.

A EXPENDITURE

Pietermaritzburg, May 6

Btainbank, the Magistrate, was shot in the knee while connecting the field telegraph wires. He the carts and abandoned a safe containing the hut-tax collections. Afterwards this was found intact. MacKenzie has crossed the Bunalo River and has laagered. The local chief Mablacitini is behaving well. He has expressed indignation and grief, and has sent followers to search for the murderers. Dinizulu’s offea to send to Maukulamaun thirty picked men to trace the murderers has been accepted. Natal asks for power to borrow £500,000 to cover the cost o( suppressing the insurrection. A SHARP ENGAGEMENT. ZULUS DEFEATED. Pietermaritzburg, May 7. Colonel Mansell has reached Fort Yolland, eighteen miles west of Eshowe. He reconnoitres towards Cetewayo’s grave. Whilst the force was travelling through a forest several shots were fired, wounding a trooper. A troop descending a hill in single file on entering more open country met two hundred Zulus, who desperately charged the vanguard of the Natal Mounttd Rifles and almo-t got in amongst ihe troopers. The N a'.al supporters rushed up and the attack was repelled. Sixty Zu'ns were (tided and many wounded Three JSaUiians were also wound ed. A thousand rebels were seen, the indications being that while a portion made the first onslaught, they engaged in an encircling movement which proved premature. Colonel Mansi 11 reports that the Native Police attached to the Natal Mounted Rifles behaved courageously and did good work during the engagement. Colonel Mansell captured 200 cattie and burned many kraals. On emerging from the forest an- 4

on returning to the fort, small bodies of the enemy followed him, sniping him. The fire was returned, the Zulus losing several of their number. Colonel Mansell commands the Durban Light Infantry, whose steadiness at a critical stage prevented serious casualties. Only Colonel Mansell’s prompt disposition of his forces prevented the assailants from completing the identical crescent formation employed at Isandlwana. Colonel Mansell is trying to keep the rebels together and then crush them.