ZULU INSURRECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8134, 14 June 1906, Page 2

ZULU INSURRECTION.

THE FIGHT IN MO ME VALLEY. REBELS' HEAVY FATALITIES. Pietrbmahitziiuho, June 12. It was daybreak before tlie Mome Valley was closed at both ends.

The rebels became alarmed at their position and broke back in two parties to the mouth of the Gorge. Captain Macfarlane poured in & heavy volley at olose range and the bulk of the rebels fled at the first volley, but some of the more daring opened fire suddenly. Captain Macfarlane threw up his hands, crying "My God!" He had been shot through the heart. A trooper who held him in his arms was a'.so wounded.

Colonel Barker and the police closed one end of tho valley, but the bottom of the gorge was left open owing to tbe premature alarm of tho natives, who, aided by a fog, streamed up the donga and succeeded in escaping. The Northorn Rifles charged the rebels flank, Lieut. Ruudle shooting Mehlohazulu.

Bambaata, though wounded, and his horse shot under him, joined Sigananda.

Macfarlane was a South Australian trooper with the first Australian contingent in tho Transvaal war, and had won a commission and the D.S.O. He had been rccontly engaged in farming at Prangia. Forty rebels wero shot in the trees, from where they were throwing assegais. Their total loss is four hundred. Mehlohazulu's standing among the natives was a superior, as Bambaata's former crack shot, he having fought in a former war.