The Natal Outbreak.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3636, 7 April 1906, Page 2

The Natal Outbreak.

THE ZULU REBELS execuTEP* ; IN THE PRESENCE Of THIP CHIEFS. ■ PIETERMARITZBURG, Aprils. The natives were shot in a valley half a miles from Richmond. No civilians were present. The prisoners, who belonged to the Ethiopian Church, > spent the night praying and singing hymns. They confessed their guilt and expressed regret to Mr .Fryer, Vicar of Richmond, who accompanied them to the execution. Before starting the prisoners were brogght to the Courthouse, where Colonel Weighton read the sententence, and the Governor’s confirmation.

The prisoners showed no fear, and respectfully saluted the Bench. A guard of two hundred police escorted them to the valley. The firing party consisted of police. Death was instantaneous. Immediately after execution the bodies were buried in a trench. Three head chiefs and one hundred Indunas witness the execution and were much impressed.

MORE NATIVES TO BE

EXECUTED.

HOW INSPECTOR HUNT . WAS MURDERED. .

Pietermaritzburg, April 3. After the executions, Colonel Royston addressed the chiefs present, driving home the lesson that the terrible scene they had witnessed was a warning that if further trouble occurred all would be punished for disobedience to the supreme chief. Subsequently a well-attended meeting of whites was held to demand the removal of Mr Gibson, a magistrate in Zululand, owing to his attitude to the'native question and opposition to the executions. Majongwe, a . head man, and Inspector Hunt’s murderers are ill in gaol, with two other offenders. Their sentences have been deferred.

Thirteen other natives have been condemned to death for offences lu the southern part of the colony. Majongwe took Inspector Hunt’s rifle and revolver and ajL the others stabbed him amt Trooper Armstrong while they were still alive. ASSUMES A SERIOUS CHARACTER. THREE POLICE KILLED. London, April 5. Five hundred mounted police and volunteers, with several Maxims, are concentrating on. Impanza and Umooti. Reuter’s Durban correspondent reports that the escaped chief Bambaata has taken to the mountains, twelve miles north-west of Greytown. He had only a few followers, armed with rifles and revolvers. One hundred Zulu police trackers assisted in the pursuit.

Reports from Greytown are to the effect that the Kaffirs attacked and cut off a portion of the field sent against Bambaata, the rebel chief. Five of the latter were wounded.

Subsequent messages state that the Impanza force was compelled to retire upon Greytown, after heavy fighting. Captain Mangell’s force rescued the women and children at Keate’s Drift. They arrived at Greytown after three police had been killed and six wounded in a running fight lasting six miles. The police escorted the women and children to Keate’s Drift, where a laager was formed. Bam* baata attacked the position -and besieged it the whole night. Re* lief arrived in the morning. Only a few hundred men defend Greytown and strong reinforce* ments are expected to arrive to* morrow.

A laager has been formed and it is unlikely the town will be attacked, the rebels preferring the rugged country. Pietermaritzburg, April 5.

Sir William Arbuckle, President of Natal Legislative Council, interviewed, declared Bambaata’s rebellion had no connection with the recent executions. , Probably the rebels had not heard ,of them when Bambaata abducted his uncle.