NATAL INSURRECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8103, 7 May 1906, Page 2

NATAL INSURRECTION.

A MAGISTRATE MURDERED. PIETEBMAKITZOUIIO, May i. A magistrate and a policeman, who were tax collecting, were murdered at Mahlabitini, Zululand. The wounded magistrate, Mr Stainbank, was accompanied by his wifei another lady, and a policeman named Fellarcs. He collected the tax unopposed until lie reached the south bank of Whito Unvolosc, on tho Vryheid border. The natives then volleyed without warning, and two were wounded. The party fled for ten miles unmolested to Mahlabitini, whero Mr Stainbank, on reaching the magistracy, expired. Fellares is still alive. PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER. LOYAL CHIEFS INDIGNANT. ASSISTING TO TRACE THE MURDERERS. Received (!, 11 a.m. Pibtbbxabitzbobg, May 5. Mr Stainbank, who winters at Soninlaw, was shot in the knee whilo connecting field telegraph wires. He inspinnod a cart and abandoned the safe containing tho hut tax, which was afterwards found intact. Follaros' roal namo is Sells. Ho is the son of a Wuildford doctor. Colonel MacKenzie has crossed the Biffulo river and laagered. The local chiets at Mahlabitini are b.>liaving well. They expressed their indignation and grief, and sent their followers in search of tho murderers. Dinizulu's offer to send Mankulama with thirty picked men to trace the m irdcrers has beon accepted.