NATAL REVOLT,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1742, 7 May 1906, Page 2

NATAL REVOLT,

MURDER OF TAX COLLECTORS,

NATIVES ASSIBT IN SEARCH.

LABOR PARTY'S CHARGE,

By telegraph, Pjreus Aas’n, Copyright Pietermaritzburg, May 4.

A magistrate and policeman, tax-ooheot-og, were murdered at Mahlebitini, Zulu* atid.

The wounded magistrate, Mr Stainbank accompanied by his wife, another lady, and a policeman named Ftllarae, collected the native tax unopposed till they reached the south bank of the White Unvoloee, on tho Vryheid border. Tbe natives there volleyed without weroiDg, and two were wounded Tho party fled ten miles unmolested to Muhlabitmi, whore Stainbank, on reaching the magistracy, expired. Fellaras is still alive.

Capetown, May 4.

The Independent Labor party manifesto demands an inquiry into the condition of natives in South Africa, as Natal is so inflamed that it cannot judge impartially, and is also ptovoking the natives to rebellion.

Received 11.14 p.m., May 6. Pietermaritzburg, May 5

Stainbank, who is Winter’s son-in law, was Bhot in the knee while connecting the field telegraph wires. The iespanned cart was abandoned.

The safe containing the hut tax was afterwards found intact. Tbe real name of Fellaras is Sells. Ho is the son of a Guildford doctor. Colonel Mackenzie has crossed th c Buffalo and laagered. The local chiefs at Maklacitine are behaving well. They have expressed indig. nation and grief, and eent their followers to search for the murderers. Dinizulu’s offer to send to Maukulamna thirty picked men to trace the murdererj has been accepted.