ZULULAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 307, 7 March 1879, Page 16

ZULULAND.

by ', ■ !i?f ftl '° ac ;;i« a .»!t^«»tb it, the plan that is being carried out Mn-rn , i 7 iT au I thd " tlcs ls * wise aTld Judicious one. Its aim is to fon? Zu J llla " d «-'th a chain of connected forces, so as to isolate it mSJf iinnfi ? r^v Af " Ca - Tbc H " c of tbe Tll ? ela ' wbit:h '« lllc mo t exposed border line, is now patrolled from Rorke's Drift to the mouth. _ Jhc lnprela is the norlbcm seaborne fiouticr of British possessions in South Africa. It divides Natal from Zululaml, which, T?, v •T" se j ia /f C3Nat al from the Portuguese settlement at Delagoa S \"f. as N atal . separates Zulnland from the Cape Colony. Zuluv\il 1S aS - fay / rom the Colony proper as Scotland is from S " ocenpu'd by a clifctmct race of natives, who have as little to ° \ h ,, tbe f - rOlJtl I ° r Caff^s-latcly at war with and now subdued by f^L VUSSIanS haV ° witb Aust rians. We lay stress upon this distinction, as so much coufiirion of distances, places and peoples apSSrtlir ?f K 1 lOgart J W ° utb Aflica - Tb « P rcsc »t movementsi«ncthei they be peaceful or warlike in their issue remains to be seen -are an entirely new affair, and have a different end in view from tnat which wasanned at during the Cape frontier war. They are at /XnVVf nC - Uy l )rccautio " ai y stage. They are to disabuse the aviv mind of an impression that the Biitish Government has neither rorces to set in action nor disposition lo move them. If this display ot military strength and readiness should be sufficient to compel Cctewayos siibmissien to terms that must inevitably be im;,S m np<m hx^' South Africa mix^ be 81>ai-ed the spectacle of .inotuci war, and peace will have been again obtained by the exhibition of preparedness for war. In our case it is obviously essential that snch a peace must be one not only with honour, but with safety —assured and accepted safety for the future. We are persuaded that no one perceives this more fully than the High Commissioner, and SIT/ more determined to place the relations of the British Government with the Zulus and with Zululand on a basis of abiding security. — A a tat Mercury.

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