THE TROUBLOUS DINIZULU.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 7 December 1907, Page 3

THE TROUBLOUS DINIZULU.

Durban, Dec. 5. It is stated that the Government has evidence of a recent series of murders of loyal natives showing that it was intended to force all the natives into one camp, and then give the signal for a general rising. Tne Government’s action took the conspirator’s by surprise, and saved the of other loyalists, including Chief Sibindi, whom the Government is specially protecting, owing to his fidelity at a critical period in 1906. The Natal Advertiser’s correspondent at Eshowe, stales that Dinizulu repeatedly offered to go to Maritzburg whenever required. He is ill, suffering from swollen legs. Mr Saunders, Commissioner for Zululand, conterred with Colonel Mackenzie, and accompanied a portion of the troops to the front. Dinizulu telegraphed to the Government expressing surprise at the preparations, and asking why, if he was thought to be in the wrong, he was not tried and punished if guilty. The telegram is attributed to the presence of 20 police watching Usutum until the main force arrives, The Government acknowledged the message, but has not modified its plans. Colonel Mackenzie has been given absolute power of discretion, with aview to ending the intolerable situation.