Natal Native Trouble.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 4

Natal Native Trouble.

Pietermaritzburg, May 8,

It is reported at Durban that the assegai beads used by the rebels were made at Birmingham and Germany and were imported into Zululand via Delagoa Bay and Swaziland ; also Snider cartridges. The militia reserves at Vreiheid, mostly Boers, have refused tbe rifles offered to them on tbe ground that they are obsolete. They are described as second-hand Martini-Hen-ris.

UTILISING THE LOYAL NATIVES

Pietermaritzburg, May 9,

Loyal natives are [being utilised to drive Bambaata from bis bush lairs. Otherwise twenty thousand troops would be required.