Natal Native Trouble.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3876, 21 May 1906, Page 4

Natal Native Trouble.

PREPARING THE PUNISHMENT. OTHER CHIEFS JOIN THE REBELS. London, May 17. The Times Pietermaritzburg correspondent states that, while it is intended that a martial law tribunal shall deal with the ringleaders and the chiefs, special courts and magistrates are arranging to deal with the rank and file, with power to impose penalties up to two years and lashes. Everything will be submitted to revision by the central authority. Mehlokazulu and Ngux have joined the rebels, abandoned their kraals, and removed their women and stock. The main body of the rebels are still within Col. Mackenzie's area of operations. The tribes between Mapulo and Helpmaaker are being " doctored " for war. Some have started to join the rebels in Zululand. VOLUNTEERS TAKE THE FIELD. CARING FOR THE WOMEN. PIETERMARITZBUBG, May 19. Colonel Saunders is cariug for and feeding Bainbaata'a women ai.d children. The Kulos rebels are advancing on Ukandhla. Bambnate, with an impi, has started to join Sigananda in the Ukandhla bush. Capetown, May 19. Earl Selbourne, in farewelling the companies of infantry volunteers who left for Natal, said that all whites must stand together and maintain special order among the blacks. They , must show that a white man never turned his face, and though they could be stern when necessary, they could bo merciful in victory.

A LABOR VIEW. London, May 19. Mr Keir-Hardie, writing to a Zulu correspondent at Edinburgh, says : "Nobody believes there has been any Native rising. Everyone knows that it is butchery of unarmed Natives. It is remarkable to think that the Liberal Government sits supinely by and allows it to occur, apparently without a word of protest. Deeds are now being done which make one ashamed to belong to a race capable of such atrocities on defenceless, helpless people."