AFRICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 9 December 1908, Page 8

AFRICA.

riosEle tribes attacked a. patrol of General Carman’s troops in the Cameroon*, a German colony on the west coast of Africa, killing four men. including an oflirer, and wounding ton. United South Africa. Reuter’* Agency reports that it is Uiiderstoecl that the South African Conference now sitting at Capetown unanimously favours unification on the Canadian plan. An important section of the South Afri« , n Closer I nion Convention desires to model the Constitution as closely as possible on the lines o f (he British Constitution. Egyptian Nationalists. *l'hc Egyptian Legislative Council has unanimously urged the Khedive’s Government to center upon the nation the right of effective participation in the interior Rdniini<tration of the country. Dinizuln’s Trial. At tlie trial of Dinizulu. the paramount Zulu chief, who is accused by the Xala] Government of fomenting the native jibing of I9O<». Mahihi, one of Dinizulu’s wtc-uified that she heard Dinizulu uidei Maukulumana to summon for a war, and al>o plot with his lullowers to murder Sir Charles Saunders, Chief Magistrate and Civil Commissioner in Zululand. and the late magistrate >teinbok. Ihe Court consists o f Sir W. J. Smith, judge of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal; Mr. 11. G. Bosh off. judge of the Native High Court of Natal; and Mr. JTeurique Shep>tone, C.M.G., son of the late sip Theophilus >hepstone. The indictincnt comprises 23 counts, including the collecting of arms, the encouragement of rebellion and the harbouring of rebels, lhe trial i- expected to la-t until Christmas, as Ihe Crown intends to call 150 witnesses and the defence 300. Cakijana, who was Diniznhi's principal lieutenant, has already been found guilty of high treason by this court, and has been sent?n<txi to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. In passing sentence, Mr. Justice Smith said there was nothing in the evidence to show that Cakijana had a ted under the direct or indirect orders of Dinizulu. Mjombolwana, another Zulu chief, was found guilty of murdering Sitfcithhil:, a chief loyal to the British, and v.y- -enfene»-d t v death. Indians in the Transvaal. Fight thou-and out of ten thousand Frit.-h lixlians in the Transvaal h've reg ■-♦ervd und<-r the Act of last session. A thou.-and application* for registrat'u u-ard will be for refusing The new ).< w provide* that after De- < • ' L'-r 31, I9OK, no n*-w trading licenses •»hull i>suc-d to Indian-*, and that no I'" -hall be issued to or held bV India. after December .31, HH'J. ‘ The Indian. rc-.Jv<<l to a-k the Imperial Goto veto the measures, in order t- pr’-v-nt the ru.n of the Indian traders. 1 “Natal Mercury/’ foreshadowing Al «rG*ng of the coolies* im poj tat ion d«i that South Africa, whether Xedc

rated *»r unified, will not permit it longer. It relic* upon Queensland's example in dealing with the coloured question. Echo of the War. A monument to Commandant Scheepers and his companions, who during the South African war were convicted of murder and executed, has been unveiled at Grant Reinet. Mr. AL T. Steyn, who was President of Orange Free State from 1896 to 1900, sent a message decdaring that if Commandant Scheepers had -lone anything condieting with the laws he had only obeyed the instructions of his superiors. “But,” Mr. Steyn added, “1 am unaware that anything conflicting with the laws was clone.’’